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What's the importance of The 442nd Nisei Combat Unit in terms of WWII?

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Posted by wakeboard002 on April 9, 2010 at 11:48 AM and tagged with 442nd combat unit, history, wwii

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This combat unit was important in the history of World War II because it was made up of Japanese Americans.  Many of the men in this combat unit had been recruited out of the internment camps...

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Actually, the 442nd is the most decorated unit in US military history, not just World War II, with seven Presidential Unit Citations and 21 Congressional Medal of Honor winners.  Since it was...

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Posted by brettd on April 9, 2010 at 12:39 PM

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