Japanese-American troops of the United States Army, 442nd Regimental Combat Team (Nisei) break through German lines in France, during World War II, to rescue the "Lost Battalion" of the 36th Division in the Vosges Mountains. Soldiers load mortar shells with supplies and food to be fired near the 36th Division Lost Battalion position, to provide vital supplies. A mortar shell is loaded with supplies and a launcher fires supply shells. Japanese-American soldiers advance in the Vosges Mountains of France, defeat the German soldiers there, take some Germans prisoner, and and rescue the U.S. Army Lost Battalion members. Relief forces arrive and wounded soldiers are rescued and transported in jeeps. Soldiers of Japanese ancestry in U.S. Army are honored for their bravery. United States Army General Dahlquist presents awards to 442nd Regimental Combat Team Japanese-American soldiers and salutes them. Soldiers raise the United States flag.
Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain War Relocation Center (internment camp), Wyoming, during World War II. A Japanese American doctor shakes hands with and talks to the patients at a clinic. A trial at the center. Japanese Americans stand in line for voting in the elections of the councilmen. A man walks out of a curtained area and places his paper ballot, in a ballot box. A young woman voter then steps behind the curtain to fill out her paper ballot. A Caucasian teacher plays piano for Japanese American students. Small children in a library study books.
Japanese American children at school in a relocation center (internment camp) during World War 2. The U.S. flag on a relocation center. Young children in Kindergarten class. Teachers teach small students in a primary class. Girl student in the class solves problems. Students learn to play basketball at a court. Slate notes, "How do they react to the rising tide of racial prejudice? Well, here's one answer -- a growing feeling among the older Japanese that they will be permanently segregated and become wards of the United States, like the American Indian. Thus willing hands erect more permanent school buidlings." View of Japanese-American worker-residents in the camp building school buildings. Nisei students and American teacher at a high school. A girl solves trigonometry problems, standing at the black board in a class room. A student arranges drawers in a rack. Older Japanese-born men and women (Issei) learning in a school classroom. A student writes answers on the blackboard.
Nisei, the Japanese Americans of second generation, at relocation centers (internment camps) during World War II. A liner sails near the Manhattan Bridge on water front of Manhattan. Streets and markets crowded with Japanese-American people. Japanese students at a school. A Japanese man teaches girls lessons to handle film camera. A military officer registers a Nisei couple. Car moves in the desert for site selection of relocation center. Men clear ground for making relocation homes. Homes, colonies and farmlands under construction. A family enters their cabinet in the relocation center. Nisei children play in mud and barbed fences at the relocation centers. Military Police guards during a parade with rifles. A mother and child walk in mud.
A film titled 'Surrender in the Pacific' shows American soldiers hoisting their national flag in Tokyo to mark the surrender of Japanese troops. Soldiers march down a street in Tokyo and a bulldozer clears rubble from the streets. Japanese read occupation bulletins and bow to Emperor Hirohito. Wrecked Japanese cities are seen. Former Japanese Premier Hideki Tojo being administered an American soldier's blood at a hospital in Yokohama after he attempted a suicide. Atom bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - atom bomb explodes with smoke rising upwards.
Japanese Aliens being questioned by American officials at an office in United States. A Japanese girl stands with an instrument as officials study the instrument and take down notes. Japanese aliens being questioned and an officer takes their finger prints. A Japanese girl and an officer look at an instrument carefully.
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