![]() ![]() Then, as a result of anti-Japanese fearmongering on the West Coast, more than 100,000 Americans of Japanese descent were sent to confinement in inland “relocation centers.” Most were natural-born citizens, their only “crime” their ethnicity.Īfter the army eventually decided it would admit the second-generation Japanese American (Nisei) volunteers, it complemented the 100th Infantry Battalion by creating the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Army initially turned Japanese American prospects away. Except for those in the Hawaii National Guard, who made up the 100th Infantry Battalion, the U.S. ![]() In the patriotic war fever that followed, thousands of volunteers-including Japanese Americans-rushed to military recruitment centers. When Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Americans reacted with revulsion and horror. ![]()
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