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Lädt ... Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War IIvon Bruce Henderson
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. New material for me. First generation Japanese Americans, Nisei, perform admirably as interpreters for the services in the Pacific, despite being discrimated against. Some were in internment camps or their families were. The book follows 6 or so as they are trained and sent into battle.!!they make a real difference in outcomes of battles. Excellent well/researched author. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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HTML:One of the last, great untold stories of World War IIâ??kept hidden for decadesâ??even after most of the World War II records were declassified in 1972, many of the files remained untouched in various archivesâ??a gripping true tale of courage and adventure from Bruce Henderson, master storyteller, historian, and New York Times best-selling author of Sons and Soldiersâ??the saga of the Japanese American U.S. Army soldiers who fought in the Pacific theater, in Burma, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, with their families back home in America, under U.S. Executive Order 9066, held behind barbed wire in government internment camps. After Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. military was desperate to find Americans who spoke Japanese to serve in the Pacific war. They soon turned to the Niseiâ??first-generation U.S. citizens whose parents were immigrants from Japan. Eager to prove their loyalty to America, several thousand Niseiâ??many of them volunteering from the internment camps where they were being held behind barbed wireâ??were selected by the Army for top-secret training, then were rushed to the Pacific theater. Highly valued as expert translators and interrogators, these Japanese American soldiers operated in elite intelligence teams alongside Army infantrymen and Marines on the front lines of the Pacific war, from Iwo Jima to Burma, from the Solomons to Okinawa. Henderson reveals, in riveting detail, the harrowing untold story of the Nisei and their major contributions in the war of the Pacific, through six Japanese American soldiers. After the war, these soldiers became translators and interrogators for war crime trials, and later helped to rebuild Japan as a modern democracy and Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)940.53089History and Geography Europe Europe 1918- World War II Culture StudiesKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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