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Author Asahina, Robert.

Title Just Americans : how Japanese Americans won a war at home and abroad : the story of the 100th Battalion/442d Regimental Combat Team in World War II / Robert Asahina.

Publication Info. New York : Gotham, [2006]
©2006

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 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  940.54 ASAHINA    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  940.54 ASA    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  940.5421 ASA    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  940.5421 AS    Check Shelf
Description 339 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-324) and index.
Contents Prologue : Jap Road -- Citizens -- 1. One Puka Puka : the mainland, Hawaii, and the 100th Battalion (separate) -- 2. Kotonk V. Buddhahead : volunteers, the cadre, and the 442d Regimental Combat Team -- 3. "What we're fighting for" : draftees and replacements -- Soldiers -- 4. Dragoon : the 36th "Texas" Division and the race up the Rhône -- 5. Dogfaces : the liberation of Bruyères -- 6. The battle for the high ground : from Belmont to Biffontaine -- 7. Dark nights of the soul : the lost battalion -- 8. Go for broke : "what others fear to attempt" -- 9. Casualties : "let them loose" -- Veterans -- 10. Homecoming : "Americans first class" -- Afterword : "here we admit a wrong" -- Epilogue : hill of sacrifice -- Appendix : Pearl Harbor and 9/11.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans.
Japanese American soldiers -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Western Front.
ISBN 9781592401987 hardback
1592401988 hardback
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