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Rising Sons by Bill Yenne Japanese American GIs who fought for US WWII w/DJ
Rising Sons by Bill Yenne
The Japanese American GIs who fought for the United States in World War II
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket
302 pages
Copyright 2007
CONTENTS
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Explanation of Terms xv
Introduction 1
1.Pearl Harbor, a Cultural Crossroads 3
2.Coming to America 8
3.The Morning After 18
4.We Need You After All 34
5.Linguists on the Horns of a Paradox 47
6.Expanding Their Numbers 55
7.Going Overseas 67
8.Veterans Becoming Heroes 77
9.From Cassino to the Gates of Rome 84
10.The 442nd on the Offensive 99
11.Closing In on the Arno 113
12.On the Other Side of the World 124
13.They Also Served 137
14.Frank Merrill's Samurai 143
15.In the Darkness of the Vosges 150
16.The Story of the Lost Battalion 163
17.La Houssiere and Beyond 174
18.The Spring Offensive 186
19.The Irony of Dachau 200
20.To Genoa and Victory 209
21.Final Actions in the Pacific 221
22.Frank Fujita and the Other Lost
Battalion 225
23.The Last Man In 233
24.The Military Intelligence Service
in Japan 242
25.After the War 247
EPILOGUE 260
APPENDIX 1: Japanese American Recipients of . 263
the Medal of Honor During World War II
APPENDIX 2: List of Internment Camps 267
APPENDIX 3: Text of the Presidential Unit 269
Citations Awarded to the 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team
BIBLIOGRAPHY 279
ABOUT THE AUTHOR 292
INDEX 293
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
DESP IT E THE FACT that they and their families had been forced into internment camps, thousands of the American sons of Japanese immigrants responded by volunteering to serve in the United States armed forces during World War II. As military historian BillYenne writes, "It was their country, and they wanted to serve, just like anyone else their age. These young Japanese Americans thought of themselves as Americans, and they wanted to prove it."
Most of these young Japanese Americans served in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and its component moth Infantry Battalion. For its size and length of service, the 442nd was the most decorated in the history of the U.S. Army. The Japanese American GIs of the 442nd eventually earned 21 Medals of Honor and 9,486 Purple Hearts, while their outfit was awarded 8 Presidential Unit Citations.
Rising Sons brings to light the stories of these young men who faced down discrimination to serve their country. Some of these sons of Japanese immigrants came from Hawaii, where they had witnessed the attack on Pearl Harbor firsthand, and they responded like most Americans by signing up to serve. Most of the Japanese Americans served in Italy and France in the terrible and difficult battles at Anzio and Cassino, in the Vosges Mountains, and on the Gothic Line. Detached from the regiment for service in southern Germany, the 442nd's artillery battalion had the ironic distinction of being one of the American units involved in the liberation of Dachau. Japanese Americans also proved themselves invaluable in the Pacific, serving in the Military Intelligence Service or in the infamous special-ops commando team known as Merrill's Marauders.
Weaving together impeccable research with vivid firsthand accounts from surviving veterans, Bill Yenne recounts the incredible stories of the Japanese American soldiers who fought so bravely in World War II, men who were willing to lay down their lives for a country they were uncertain would ever accept them again. Their courageous actions proved that they, too, were true members of America's Greatest Generation.
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