Soldiers of conscience [electronic resource] : Japanese American military resisters in World War II / Shirley Castelnuovo ; foreword by Cedrick Shimo.

9780313353314 (electronic book)
9780313353307
0313353301

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.

English

1 online resource (xxii, 162 p.), [10] p. of plates : ill.

D769.8.A6 C28 2008eb

940.54/04

"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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [129]-151) and index.

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