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Fontainebleau France, 1947 (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Internment was a bit complicated, but my understanding is that the US army wouldn’t turn away young Japanese-American men who were willing to fight in Europe.

Japanese-Americans (and Korean-Americans as 'enemy nationals') largely served in segregated units during the war, unlike other Asian-Americans.

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