Soldiers of conscience [electronic resource] : Japanese American military resisters in World War II / Shirley Castelnuovo ; foreword by Cedrick Shimo.
Castelnuovo, Shirley, 1930-
2008
D769.8.A6 C28 2008eb
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Title Soldiers of conscience [electronic resource] : Japanese American military resisters in World War II / Shirley Castelnuovo ; foreword by Cedrick Shimo.
Author Castelnuovo, Shirley, 1930-
ISBN 9780313353314 (electronic book)
9780313353307
0313353301
Imprint Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxii, 162 p.), [10] p. of plates : ill.
Call Number D769.8.A6 C28 2008eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 940.54/04
Summary "After Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, persons of Japanese ancestry were the victims of frequent racist acts and culturally biased governmental loyalty investigations and, finally, of exclusion and imprisonment. The majority of Japanese Americans complied with government actions during this period, including the drafting of Japanese Americans into military service. However, some two hundred Japanese Americans drafted into the army refused to serve in combat while their families languished in internment camps. The history of Japanese Americans in World War II does not record the stories of these resisters. It does not mention the War Department Special Organization, to which many of them were transferred, or the individuals who were tried and sentenced by military courts to long prison terms. The two hundred conscientious military resisters felt betrayed by the government and viewed the decision to imprison Japanese Americans as an immoral acquiescence to West Coast racism."--pub. desc.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [129]-151) and index.
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The presumption of disloyalty
The pre-detention inductees: individual conscientious resistance
The Fort McClellan conscientious resisters
The response to Fort McClellan
Renunciation/repatriation in the military
Company of the damned
Renunciation/repatriation at Fort Meade
Partial vindication
The conscientious resisters and the Japanese American community
Military service and the right of conscience.

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