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Honor by Fire
Lyn Crost
其他書名
Japanese Americans at War in Europe and the Pacific
出版Presidio, 1994
主題History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / GeneralSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander Studies
ISBN08914152119780891415213
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=WthmAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In the European theater of WWII, the Japanese Americans making up the 442nd Regimental Combat Team were so dependably fierce that, according to General Alfred Greunther, every division in the Fifth Army "insisted that the 442nd be assigned to it.'' The Nisei (second-generation) soldiers also distinguished themselves in other arenas. Japanese Americans had already stood to arms in defense of Pearl Harbor and volunteered by the hundreds and thousands as indispensable translators for military intelligence in the Pacific theater. Some of those intelligence operatives worked in occupied areas; others risked and sometimes lost their lives trying to persuade Japanese soldiers to surrender. In the Pacific, they were in constant danger of being mistaken by Marines for the enemy. While these Japanese Americans were defending the country of their birth, their families languished in concentration camps in the U.S., marked as "enemy aliens'' after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Crost's effort greatly increases knowledge of this aspect of Asian American history, even as it also increases outrage at the panic, bigotry, and outright criminality behind the placing of Japanese Americans on the home front in internment camps.