Unnamed Japanese-American Soldiers

Submitted by sfr on Mon, 2020-03-02 10:21
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3169
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Unnamed Japanese-American Soldiers
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Unnamed Japanese-American Soldiers
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Unnamed Interned Japanese Americans
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No
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In Requiem for a Nun the German tank gun that serves as Jefferson's monument to the men who served in World War II was captured "by a regiment of Japanese in American uniforms," the sons of interned Japanese Americans (194). (Over 30,000 Japanese-Americans served in the U.S. military during the war, many in the 100th/442nd Infantry Regiment that became the most decorated unit in U.S. history.)

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