Japanese American women were allowed to join as early as February 1943, but only a small number of Nisei served.ĪXIS: The military and political alliance of Germany, Italy, and later Japan, that fought the Allies in World War II.īRUYÈRES and BIFFONTAINE, FRANCE: Northeastern French towns liberated by the 100th/442nd in vicious fighting in October 1944.ĬASSINO, ITALY: The location of the 100th’s last (as a separate unit) and arguably toughest battle, where it earned the nickname of “The Purple Heart Battalion” because of the many casualties it suffered.ĬHILDREN IN THE CAMPS: Of the more than 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry who were forcibly detained in the incarceration centers through WWII, about half were children.ĬIVIL LIBERTIES ACT OF 1988: Provided a formal apology and reparations of up to $20,000 to those held in incarceration centers during World War II.ĭACHAU SUBCAMPS: In May 1945, the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion, which had left the 442nd Regimental Combat Team to support the Allies’ final drive into southern Germany, came across the subcamps, or satellite camps, of the Dachau slave labor complex and helped to liberate a death march in the German countryside.ĭATE OF INFAMY: Phrase coined by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to refer to the day that the Hawaiian island of Oahu, particularly the Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, was attacked by the Japanese. ARMY NURSE CORPS (ANC): ANC nurses worked in field hospitals, evacuation hospitals, hospital trains, ships and planes.
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