Episode 125: Go For Boke, Part II

Thanks in part to the 100th Infantry Battalion blowing all their doubters's expectations out of the water during their training, FDR and the War Department decided to stand up anther segregated Nisei unit - the 442nd Regimental Combat Team - mad made up of volunteers from Hawaii and the mainland (most of the of 1200 volunteers from the mainland were interned at the time) and like the 100th before them, they did everything the Army asked of them and more while fighting in Italy against the German and Italian militaries.

Go for Broke is a Hawaiian pidgin term for when a dice player puts all his money on a single throw. It was the motto the 442nd Regimental Combat Team picked for itself and it prepared to Go for Broke combating racism, stereotypes, and the Axis.