They were Japanese American soldiers, part of a storied military unit that faced down prejudice and suspicion to fight Adolf Hitler’s armies in Europe.

High school student Kayla Ling was inspired to create a documentary film by Japanese American families like that of Ted ...

In addition to the MIS, young Japanese-Americans joined the all-Nikkei 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which would become among the most decorated units in World War ...

The U.S. Army’s Japanese American “Purple Heart battalion” is U.S. history’s most decorated military unit for its size and length of service.

In June 1944, The men who signed on with the 442nd would find themselves in Italy, fighting alongside the 100th Infantry Battalion, the battle-tested unit made up mostly of Japanese Americans from ...

The immortalized motto of the 442nd, created in 1943, was “Go for Broke.” It participated in the search for the “Lost Battalion” of Texas that was surrounded by German troops in eastern ...

A sword from the defense of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812. A stopped wristwatch recovered from the wrecked E-Ring of the Pentagon on the Sept. 11 attacks. The Sherman tank that first broke ...

When the recruiters for the 442nd Regimental Combat Team came through ... In the summer of 1944, Kashiwagi , now a scout in Company K, 3rd Battalion, arrived in Italy and went into combat north ...

David Amendola, a Military Police Soldier with the 442nd Military Police Company ... to Alpha Company of the Recruiting and Retention Battalion. The competition consisted of multiple stages ...