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Show 148 I Hi loriral Es ays: Mainland North America in regard to th ir right to own land, work, share in natural resources, and perat foreign language schools, as well as on our government's right to e elude and expel aliens. Much has been written about the Japanese American fighting forces during World War II. Among the accounts of exploits of the Japanese in the special units of armed forces is Ambassador in Arms (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1954) by Thomas D. Murphy which is a detailed battle account of the famed 100th Infantry Battalion, composed of Japanese Americans from Hawaii. A more general work is Orville Shirey's Americans: The Story of the 442nd Combat Team (MTOUSA, Information-Education Section, 1945). Additional information on that subject appears in the materials already cited above, such as Bosworth's America 5 Concentration Camps, which has a superb section on the Japanese Americans in military service. Bill Hosokawa's book summarizes the less known but vital role of Nisei in the Pacific war which hitherto had been "classified" information. For an account of an individual's contribution, A Boy from Nebraska (New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1946) by Ralph G. Martin on the life of Ben Kuroki, who won fame as an Air Force ace, is informative as well as delightfully entertaining. Japanese American participation in government and military service is also discussed briefly in the 6th National Nisei Veterans' Reunion (Los Angeles, 1970). The booklet includes some interesting and hitherto unpublished information. For example, many Japanese Americans served in the Women's Army Corps and a large number served in the Pacific theater in a variety of roles including military intelligence (as many as in the 442nd regiment in the European war). It also notes that there were nine Japanese among the crew of the USS Maine when it exploded in Havana Harbor in 1898 and it reveals that a Japanese was employed by the U .5. government over a hundred years ago. Short articles covering a wide range of topics concerning the Japanese and their removal to the interior of the country are plentiful. For example, John H. Oakie's "Japanese in the United States," in Far Eastern Survey XI 2 (January 26, 1942) gives a brief account of the immediate impact of war on the daily lives of the Japanese in the United States. The April 1944 issue of Fortune, XXIX, 4 was devoted entirely to Japan and the Japanese and it summarizes Japanese culture and life and the industrial war potential of Japan. One of the articles in that issue is especially pertinent to the evacuation: "Issei, Nisei, Kibei" gives a clear insight into the mass removal with its inherent problems related to the background of the three classes of evacuees. Frank Miyamoto's "Immigrants and Citizens of Japanese Origins," in the/ (Sept econ< rise c. ation treat€ Eveni Japan Auth ref ere Ca Mag a condt Army of Jap ters" c an err all rna resultj categc diate c of Ca Violet Cm lem ar 1942), of the cussio A'afion andth \'II ( We lnouyt .. 1 merit pared numb£ materi Cfnler_ league Lt.l!,"'U Applie in A r., |
