Going for Broke: Japanese American Soldiers in the War against Nazi Germany

by James M. McCaffrey

Book Overview

When Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Americans reacted with revulsion and horror. In the patriotic war fever that followed, thousands of volunteers--including Japanese Americans--rushed to military recruitment centers. Except for those in the Hawaii National Guard, who made up the 100th Infantry Battalion, the U.S. Army initially turned Japanese American prospects away. Then, as a result of anti-Japanese fearmongering...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806159413
• ISBN13: 9780806159416
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"