Show me some accounts of Japanese-American battalions fighting against the Japanese in the Pacific.
The real question is why you choose to defend a socialist policy.
A bigger question is why you refuse to answer my questions: Do you believe that a large percentage of Islamic-Americans would whole-heartedly kill Islamic invaders if it came to that? Do you believe alarge percentage od Japanese-Americans would've whole-heartedly killed Japanese invaders in WW2 if it would've come to that. Do you believe that a large percentage of slash-Americans who come here, make money, and send that money to their extended families in their native lands really give a rats behind about America, America's history, and America's survival? Especially when they even refuse to be American in look and demeaner and even almost exclusively watch their native land's TV stations, etc.
The US Military did not deploy the Japanese-American Army regiment or battalion to the Pacific Theatre. However, there were thousands of Japanese Americans deployed across the Pacific Theatre in a "service" called the Military Intelligence Service.
http://www.dtic.mil/armylink/news/Jun2000/r20000630mispressrelease.html
Secretary of the Army Louis Caldera has approved award of the Presidential Unit Citation to the U.S. Army's Military Intelligence Service, a World War II unit composed of Japanese-American soldiers who provided critical intelligence support to every major theater of the war.
"The Presidential Unit Citation is the best way we can honor the thousands of MIS members who served with rare skill and courage in World War II, but whose wartime contributions have never received appropriate credit because their services were cloaked in secrecy," Caldera said. "I hope that with this award, the MIS will at last begin to receive the recognition that they deserve, and that more of our citizens will appreciate the valuable service they rendered in the war against tyranny."
Gen. Eric K. Shinseki, Army chief of staff, will present the award to former members of the unit during a ceremony June 30 in Monterey, Ca.
In November 1941, the War Department established the Military Intelligence Service Language School, the forerunner of today's Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, which eventually trained over 6,000 linguists, most of Japanese-American heritage. These US-born second-generation Japanese-Americans, commonly known as "Nisei," were assigned to US combat units throughout the world, primarily in the Pacific theater, supporting US forces with critical intelligence skills such as interpretation, translation and interrogation.
The Presidential Unit Citation, awarded for the period of May 1942 to
September 1945, states that "...The Military Intelligence Service not only played
key roles in battlefield situations, they also provided United States forces with an unprecedented amount of intimate, authoritative, detailed, and timely information on enemy forces to support planning and execution of combat operations..."
Among its many contributions to the Allied victory, the MIS is credited with providing information that enabled US forces to shoot down hundreds of Japanese aircraft during the Battle of the Philippine Sea and translating documents for the Manhattan Project, the U.S. program to develop an atomic bomb. Maj. Gen. Charles Willouby, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's chief of staff for intelligence, said the MIS's contributions "saved countless lives and shortened the war by two years."
In spite of their significant contributions to the Allied victory in World War II, members of the MIS were formerly ineligible for unit decorations because they were attached to other units instead of being officially assigned to those units. The MIS was never deployed as a unit. Rather, its members were attached to other field units to provide critical intelligence capabilities. Many of these members received individual awards for heroism.
Congress passed legislation in November 1997 (Public Law 105-85, Section 576, "Eligibility of Certain World War II Military Organizations for Award of Unit Decorations"), authored by U.S. Senator Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii), that permitted the Army to consider the MIS for a unit decoration. Following a review of the MIS's wartime service, Caldera, acting on President Clinton's behalf, approved the award of the Presidential Unit Citation.
The Army recently recognized 22 other Japanese-American soldiers with the Medal of Honor during a ceremony at the White House June 21.
Shinseki will be a featured speaker June 30 at the 36th Biennial National Convention of the Japanese American Citizens League and will present the Presidential Unit Citation to former members of the MIS. Media interested in covering this event should contact Kay Rodriguez of the Defense Language Institute's public affairs office at 831-242-6430.
As we've said before, "The real question is why you choose to defend a socialist policy."