442nd Infantry Regiment by Jesse Russell

The 442nd included three infantry battalions, the mainland were in Camp Shelby, Mississippi, for basic training. Within a month, 2,686 volunteers from Hawai'i and 1,500 from the U.S. The 442nd Regimental Combat Team was organized on March 23, 1943.

In fact, the there were about 1,500 from the mainland-most from behind barbed wire in American concentration camps-while an equal number of eligible young men of draft age yielded nearly 10,000 volunteers in Hawai'i, where most of the Japanese American population remained subject to prejudice and discrimination but free from mass incarceration. In early 1943, the War Department issued a call for volunteers for a segregated unit, anticipating approximately equal numbers from Hawai'i and the mainland. The 100th had included about 1,400 Japanese American draftees, all from Hawai'i, as well as haole (white) officers. The need for more troops as the wars across the Atlantic and the Pacific ground on became another factor. In Hawai'i for their year of service as volunteer labor for the U.S. To create the segregated 442nd RCT included lobbying from significant supporters of the Japanese American community, the sterling training record of the 100th as well as the well-publicized efforts of the The events which eventually convinced the War Department and President had designated the latter 'Orange' for war games in the Pacific, anticipating actual confrontation in 1941 by over three decades. Indeed, by the time of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904–05, won by Japan, the U.S. This racism was precipitated by the attack on Pearl Harbor but it had deep antecedents in the nearly half-century of legal, social, and economic policies directed against Asians in general within the United States. The calculated response culminated in the forced removal and unconstitutional incarceration of 120,000 residents of Japanese ancestry, including the complete elimination of communities and individuals from the entire West Coast of the United States. The war heightened American prejudice against German Americans and Italian Americans but the racism directed against Japanese Americans was particularly vicious. And other American bases, the United States entered the war against Japan, Germany, and Italy.

442nd Infantry Regiment by Jesse Russell