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by akhilcacharya 3485 days ago
They were disallowed from fighting in the Pacific theatre, so they all fought in Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/442nd_Infantry_Regiment_(Unite...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Inouye#Medal_of_Honor_c...
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MaxfordAndSons 3485 days ago
Interesting to note, this went both ways: my grandfather was a naturalized German immigrant, and was sent to the Pacific when drafted because he was disallowed from fighting in Europe.

But of course, for some reason, German Americans weren't interned...

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leurfete 3485 days ago
Germans and Italians were also interned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Italian_American...
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MaxfordAndSons 3485 days ago
Yea, learned this today. Seems to be that it was of a significantly smaller percentage than of Japanese Americans though.
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TazeTSchnitzel 3485 days ago
The article summary seems to imply this was to a lesser extent?
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coldcode 3485 days ago
Germans are considered "white" I imagine and thus hard to distinguish.
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wehadfun 3485 days ago
We know why this did not happen
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