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Thu May 27

Japanese American soldiers in World War II fought the Axis abroad and racial prejudice at home

Written by Susan H. Kamei, Lecturer in History; Managing Director of the Spatial Sciences Institute, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Soldiers of the Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat Team in Bruyères, France.U.S. Army Signal Corps via Wikimedia Commons

Imagine being forced from your home by the government, being imprisoned in a detention camp under armed guards and behind barbed wire – and then being required to join the military to fight for the nation that...

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