A lot of the young men enlisted and fought in Europe, Italy mostly. No ‘woe is us we are victims’ navel-gazing for seventy years. Although yes there was a belated compensation.
Some also enlisted and fought in the Pacific. A school pal of mines Nisei father enlisted in the Army in 1940. He spoke and read Japanese fluently. In Oct 1942 he was assigned to the 164th Infantry Regiment on Guadalcanal as an interpreter. After
Guadalcanal, he volunteered for duty with Merrill’s Marauders in Burma. He was medically discharged in late 1944 for diseases he got while in Burma.
All this time his parents, grand parents, aunts, uncles and cousins were being held in the detention center at Heart Mountain, Wyoming.