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Ambassadors in arms; the story of Hawaii's 100th Battalion. Sketches [by] Yoshio Takamoto; maps [by] Tadashi K. Ohta.
- Title
- Ambassadors in arms; the story of Hawaii's 100th Battalion. Sketches [by] Yoshio Takamoto; maps [by] Tadashi K. Ohta.
- Author
- Murphy, Thomas Daniel
- Publication
- Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1954.
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- Description
- 339 pages illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- Hawaii's 100th Infantry Battalion Separate was the first U.S. Army combat unit composed of Americans of Japanese ancestry (AJAs). Its original members had been inducted into the Army before Japanese planes swept down on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. How the loyalty of these soldiers was questioned by other Americans, then put to the test, and finally proved beyond doubt on the battlefields of Europe is the subject of this book. Sometimes called the Purple Heart Battalion because of its casualty lists, the 100th established a record in Italy and France that made it one of the most decorated units in the history of the U.S. Army.
- Alternative Title
- Story of Hawaii's 100th Battalion
- Subject
- United States. Infantry Battalion, 100th
- 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 > Regimental histories > United States
- Japanese > Hawaii
- World War, 1939-1945 > Japanese Americans
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Histoire des unités > États-Unis
- Japonais > Hawaii
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Américains d'origine japonaise
- Japanese Americans
- Japanese
- Regimental histories
- Hawaii
- United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-315. "Battalion records": pages [316]-339)
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Americans? -- The eyes of America -- Trustworthy soldiers? -- Activation -- Separate battalion -- The heart of America -- Shelby and the South -- By our professed ideals -- Kotonks, Buddaheads, Red Bulls -- Mud and blood -- Into the hills -- I didn't hear a man complain -- More hills -- Cassino -- Beach rats -- Breakthrough to Rome -- We get to wondering -- We tore them wide open -- To the Arno -- Come and get us -- Lost battalion -- Riviera holiday -- Florida to Ohio -- Mopping up -- Mission accomplished -- Bibliography -- Battalion records.
- OCLC
- 5070476
- SCSB-13324892
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library