Go For Broke!

Colonel Saul will present a short history of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which consisted of volunteers who formed the segregated Japanese-American army combat unit. Over 12,000 Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) volunteers answered the call. 2,686 from Hawaii and 1,500 from mainland U.S. internment camps assembled at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, in 1943 for a year of infantry training. Many soldiers from the continental U.S. had families in internment camps in the USA while they fought abroad. The 442nd fought in some of the fiercest battles of WW II and became the highest decorated unit in the war. The unit's motto was "Go for Broke."

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