Twenty-one of its members were awarded Medals of Honor. The unit was awarded eight Presidential Unit Citations (seven between 1944-46, five earned in one month). The unit including the 100th Infantry Battalion earned more than 18,000 awards in less than two years, including more than 4,000 Purple Hearts and 4,000 Bronze Star Medals. Created as the 442nd Regimental Combat Team when it was activated 1 February 1943, the unit quickly grew to its fighting complement of 4,000 men by April 1943, and an eventual total of about 14,000 men served overall. The 442nd Regiment is the most decorated unit for its size in U.S. had families in internment camps while they fought abroad. Many of the soldiers from the continental U.S. incarceration camps assembled at Camp Shelby, Mississippi in April 1943 for a year of infantry training. Ultimately 2,686 from Hawaii and 1,500 from U.S. More than 12,000 Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) volunteers answered the call.
The 442nd Regimental Combat Team (RCT) was organized on March 23, 1943, in response to the War Department's call for volunteers to form the segregated Japanese American army combat unit. Beginning in 1944, the regiment fought primarily in the European Theatre, in particular Italy, southern France, and Germany. Military history and as a fighting unit composed almost entirely of second-generation American soldiers of Japanese ancestry ( Nisei) who fought in World War II. The regiment is best known as the most decorated in U. The 442nd Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the United States Army.
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