AMST 310 Test 2
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100th Infantry Battalion
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- aka Purple Heart Battalion
- 1400 Nisei in the army before Pearl Harbor
- originally Hawaii Provisional Battalion (Separate) Unit
- first to volunteer
- 300% casualty rate
- later integrated into the 442nd
- 1399th Engineering Construction Battalion
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- 900 Nisei total
- built bridges, water systems, defense enforcements, airfields, and training camps
- received Meritorious Unit Plaque
- known for finishing jobs ahead of time
- very patriotic
- 1928
- The Fukunaga Case
- 1931
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- The Massie Affair in Hawaii
- The Manchurian Incident (Japan invades China)
- The Massie Affair in Hawaii
- 1941
- Japan bombs Pearl Harbor; America enters World War II.
- 1945
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Japan surrenders to Allied Forces.
- 442nd Regimental Combat Team (RCT)
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- 10,000 Hawaii Nisei volunteers
- "Go For Broke"
- Rescued the 36th Texas Infantry/The Lost Battalion
- the army's most decorated unti
- 300% casualty rate
- Dan Inouye, Matsuo Takabuki, Dan Aoki
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Naichi-Okinawan relationship
(reasons for hostility)
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(Naichi: immigrants from Japan)
Reasons for hostility- Naichi outnumbered Okinawans (reverse of Japan)
- They had closer personal contacts in Hawaii
- Naichi were there longer, established their culture
- Okinawan
- Dual Citizenship
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Nisei
- Japan citizen by blood
- American citizen by birth (on soil)
- Eta
- "Untouchables:" special class of outcasts who handled the blood of animals (butchers & leather tanners)
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Executive Order 9066
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1942; President Roosevelt
- designated military areas from which people could be excluded
- authorized the building of camps
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Hit List
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Issei aliens, Kibei, Buddhist priests, language school teachers, those with close ties to the homeland
Arrested after Pearl Harbor
- Kibei
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A Nisei born in Hawaii and sent to Japan for schooling
loyalties questionable
- Military Intelligence Service (MIS)
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- interrogated Japanese POWs
- helped to cut the war by 2 years
- the white officers were the best
- the Hawaii ones were very effective
- the Katonks didn't translate well
- the Kibei understood Japanese, didn'
- Varsity Victory Volunteers (VVV)
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- 170 Nisei from UH ROTC and Hawaii Territorial Guard
- Were released from duty but petitioned the military governor to accept them
- part of 34th Combat Engineers Regiment
- did janitorial work, quarried rocks, built military inst
- Women's Army Corps
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Nisei women in armed forces
26 (of 59 Hawaii volunteers) were Nisei women