The 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a segregated Japanese American unit, is remembered for its brave actions in World War II. Despite the odds, the 442nd’s actions distinguished them as the most ...

Mr. Miyagi soon joined the U.S. Army and served with the 442nd Infantry Regiment, where he participated in the European theater of World War II against the Axis powers, which included Nazi Germany ...

But when the government reversed its policy on Japanese Americans serving, he volunteered for the new all Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat Team. He left home in March of 1943 and was sent ...

Japanese Americans were now permitted to form a special segregated infantry outfit – the unit would come to be called the 442nd Infantry Regimental Combat Team. In Hawaii, where Japanese ...