Dear family, How are Japanese-Americans accepted and helping US in WW2 at one moment then discriminated into camps another? That is how lives of Japanese-Americans or “Nisei” were after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941. The weeks that followed all Japanese people living in the United States were sent off to concentration camps due to the fact After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Americans believed that all Japanese people and Japanese-Americans were a danger to America they started to become racist towards these people of Japanese descent. What Americans didn’t know is that Japanese-Americans had a part in wining WW2 as they were part of the 100th Infantry Battalion then they became the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Nisei refers to a second-generation …show more content…
At night we would march up the precipitous slopes of Mount Fologorito, we finally broke through the German defense; the Allies chased the German army for numerous weeks until they surrounded on May 2nd, 1945. While that was happening the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion were detached and were sent to support an invasion of Germany by the 7th Army. On the way to invaded men discovered and liberated Jewish people from numerous sub-units of the infamous Dachau extermination camp. The Nisei soldiers of World War II were known as “Purple Heart Battalion” and have been recognized as one of the most decorated unit in the army because of their size and their length of service. In all, our unit has received “9,486 Purple Hearts, 8 Presidential Unit Citations, 559 Silver Stars, and 52 Distinguished Service Crosses” (Niiya) as while as many other decorations. Immediately after the war, only one member of 442nd received the Medal of Honor, America's highest military