Returning from Cairo to Algiers, I began digging away at the minor mountain of paper accumulated on my desk. Memories of Egypt and Palestine faded completely as I worked late each night to reduce those piles of the General’s fan mail. Like everyone else at headquarters, however, I was still busier on unofficial duties… working overtime on the old rumor that Gen Marshall, not Gen Ike, would head the new American Expeditionary Force building in Britain, and that Ike would go to Washington to become Chief of Staff.
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Oct
29
2009
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Category : Archive Stories, Kay Summersby
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Feb
23
2009
Posted by Snafu | Comments : 1096(1)http://www.eucmh.com/2009/02/23/world-wat-two-issei-nisei-and-kibei/100th-442nd+RCT+%28Issei+Nisei+Kibei%29%281%292009-02-23+23%3A09%3A09Snafu
Category : France (North)
Tags: 100th Battalion, 1922 Supreme Court Ruling, 1924 Exclusion Act, 232nd Engineer Combat Battalion, 298th Regiment, 299th Regiment, 34th Infantry Division, 442d RCT, 442nd Infantry Regiment, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, 522nd Field Artillery Battalion, 6th Service Command, Acapulco, AJAs, Anzio, Army Hawaiian Department, Arno River, Belvedère, buddhaheads, Camp McCoy, Camp Shelby, Cassino, Chinese, Chinese Exclusion Act, Civitavecchia, Col Charles W. Pence, Com Matthew Calbraith Perry, Dillon S. Myer, Elmer Davis, Emperor Meiji, Europeans, Executive Order 9066, Fifth Amendment, Fifth Army, Foggia, Ganbare, Gannen Mono, Gen George C. Marshall, Gen Mark W. Clark, Haji, Hawaii, Hawaii National Guard, Hawaiian archipelago, Henry L. Stimson, Issei, Italy, Japanese, Japanese Exclusion Act, John J. McCloy, John L. Rankin, kotonks, Kuroshio, Lt Gen Delos C. Emmons, Lt Gen John L. DeWitt, May 1869, Mexico City, Mississippi, Naples, Neukirchen, Nisei, Nisei Hawaii Provisional Battalion, North-Africa, One Puka Puka, Oran, Pacific, Pearl Harbor, Pidgin English, Pilgrims, Plymouth Rock, Po River, Po Valley, Rome, ROTC, Salerno, San Francisco, Selective Service Act, Treaty of Kanagawa, Volturno River, Western Defense Command, Wisconsin
The story of the 100th Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team is rooted in the history of the Japanese in Hawaii and America itself. As the second generation of Japanese born abroad, or the first Japanese generation born in Hawaii and America through the early 1910s and 1920s, the Nisei were American citizens and part of the larger greatest generation to be of the right age to face the conflict of World War II. This generation of Japanese born abroad best personifies the blending of American and Japanese cultures that laid the foundation for a resolute, cohesive, and dedicated unit that accomplished every assigned mission without fail. The importance of Japanese immigration to Hawaii and the United States lies not in the fact that it did occur, but rather in how it occurred and in its consequences. Like many that came to America, the Japanese came for economic reasons. Unlike many Europeans, however, the bulk of the Japanese came to the United States not to escape the old country and settle in the new world, but rather with the intent to return home rich after a short period of contract labor, in what actually equated to indentured servitude. Many did not return and before long had established a solid and unique Japanese American culture ‘one that often faced severe prejudice’.
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