Episode 123: Go For Broke, Part I

 

While Mr. Miyagi is a fictional character, the distinguished unit he was written to have served with in World War II was not. After the US government interned Japanese residents and their American citizen children in concentration camps after Pearl Harbor, many of those Americans unconstitutionally detained by their own government looked for a chance to prove their loyalty by volunteering to serve in the Army. The two most famous of these (nearly) all-Japanese American units are the 100th Infantry Regiment (Remember Pearl Harbor) and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team (Go for Broke!). Not only did the men in those units serve with distinction, they became the highest decorated units of their size in US Army history. This podcast marks the beginning of a multi-episode are about Japanese American military service in the Second World War.