The 442nd Regimental Combat Team was the most decorated unit for its size and length of service during the entire history of the U.S. military. Deep in a camouflaged sector Pvt. Takeshi Omuro ...

It was their grandfathers' war, though today the town of Bruyeres no longer bears the scar of conflict as the Nisei of the 442nd regimental combat team are remembered still. It was their ...

The Japanese American soldiers helped drive the German army out of Italy and continued into eastern France, fighting nonstop for nearly two months in the Vosges Mountains. Their last-ditch effort ...

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Upon signing the Executive Order that created the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, February 1943. The only all Japanese unit during World War II. Image above ...

Family and friends commemorated the 81st anniversary of the 442nd regimental combat team Saturday at Fort Shafter. Sergeant ...

I had the distinct pleasure of attending a moving and highly educational session in Lynnwood that combined live theater performance with archival film and photos. The ...

His mother holds a photo of her oldest son, Shigera Hirano, a U.S. Army sergeant who was serving with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. The family was first held for three months at the Salinas ...

After more than a year in camp, Satow volunteered for the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and was inducted into the Army in July of 1943. He was put in as an 81mm mortar section of Company H and was ...

A well-recognized veteran of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team who fought in World War II, Arisumi helped turn the dream of the Nisei Veterans Memorial Center into reality by drawing public support ...

An exhibition at the Grey Art Museum explores the fervid postwar scene in Paris, where Ellsworth Kelly, Joan Mitchell and ...

Visitors look at an exhibit spotlighting the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. The Nisei Veterans Memorial Center welcomes thousands of visitors and receives hundreds of research requests every year.

YAME, Fukuoka >> A museum dedicated to the late U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye, the first Japanese American member of Congress, who devoted his career to promoting Japanese-U.S. friendship, opened Thursday ...