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The Japanese-American Regiment of the U.S. Army during World War 2

On the 7th of December 1941, the Japanese launched their surprise military strike on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor. It led to the United States formally declaring war on Japan, and vice versa, the next day. Consider supporting HoH: ►Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/HouseofHistory ►Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/HouseofHistory As war broke out in the Pacific Theatre, on the United States mainland measures were taken against supposedly potentially hostile Japanese as well. In February 1942 President Roosevelt authorised Executive Order 9066, an executive that in practice was used to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps forcibly. The Nisei, a term to describe Japanese that were born and raised in the United States, were forcibly relocated into internment camps. The treatment of Japanese-American citizens during the second world war is pretty well known, even outside of the United States. But what’s so curious is that although Japanese Americans were viewed as a potentially hostile threat by mere reason of their ancestry, the 442nd Infantry Regiment fought as part of the United States Army in the European theatre. This regiment consisted entirely of Nisei soldiers, Americans with Japanese ancestry. And what is more, it became the most decorated unit in U.S. military history. The Infantry Regiment Combat Team and 100th Infantry Battalion were forbidden from participating in the Pacific war theatre. The only Nisei that the US used there were those that were fluent in Japanese in order to work for the military intelligence service, as translator, spy and interrogator. Now, the 100th Infantry Battalion was sent to the European war theatre before the 442nd. They landed at Salerno on Sicily on the 19th of September 1943. They participated in the Battle of Monte Cassino and the liberation of Italy. The Battle of Monte Cassino was a major assault that took four months and led to the defeat of the Germans holding the Gustav line. Nevertheless, the 100th suffered a disproportionate amount of casualties. Due to this siege, they earned the nickname ‘The Purple Heart Battalion’, because of the amount of Purple Heart medals that were awarded following the battle. As they were sent to Europe before the 442nd, the soldiers from that regiment were often sent to replenish the ranks of the 100th infantry, an acute need that emerged after the battle of Monte Cassino. By February 1944, after six months of seeing combat, the fighting had been brutal to the degree that of the originally 1300-strong battalion only 521 remained. The number of casualties did not just affect regular soldiers. My Twitter:https://twitter.com/Oscar_HoH My videos tend to get arbitrarily demonetized. That is why I decided to open up a Patreon where people can support the channel. If you decide to pledge as little as 1$/month you will gain access to a monthly series exclusive to my Patrons! Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 1:26 History of the 100th and 442nd 5:47 The units in combat 9:26 "Purple Heart Battalion" Watch my documentary series: ►History of Prussia playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLazn7eofVtjJjSlui3iOOz0P3KI7-v3o5 ►End of Empire - Downfall of the Qing Dynasty playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLazn7eofVtjLnVJY6NyQX8JlVApf40DLs ►World War 2 playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLazn7eofVtjLYTXde713nRftdAPj7YW_a ►Hitler's Spies playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLazn7eofVtjJGQ4c1q7mQhTh5vM54_17o The content of this video covers events, people or concepts via a lecture-style presentation that is educational and historical in nature. Every video is original content by House of History. The events relating to conflict in this video are portrayed in their historical context without either value judgment or an ideological message attached to it. There is no intent to shock, upset or disgust. The goal of my channel is to make interesting lecture-style videos, no more, no less. Thank you for taking the time to check out House of History, I hope you will find the films informative, interesting and enjoyable! If you have any feedback, questions or criticism feel free to leave a comment. Your opinion truly aids me in improving the content of the channel! If you have a question, feel free to leave a comment and I will either write a reply, answer your question in a Q&A video, or make an entire video about it! Sources: https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/04/05/this-japanese-american-army-unit-is-the-reason-we-celebrate-national-go-for-broke-day/ http://www.the442.org/activation.html http://militaryandpolice.blogspot.com/2014/04/442nd-infantry-regiment-442.html (foto’s) https://books.google.nl/books?id=l9QKBMG8M8oC&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false https://www.100thbattalion.org/learn/timeline/ Photos, paintings and imagery: Public Domain, Wikicommons #HouseofHistory #History #WW2