Ambassadors in Arms - Murphy, Thomas D.
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Hawaii's 100th Infantry Battalion Separate was the first US Army combat unit composed of Americans of Japanese ancestry. Its original members were inducted into the Army before Pearl Harbor. How the loyalty of these soldiers was questioned, put to the test, and finally proved on the battlefields of Europe is the subject of this book.

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Hawaii's 100th Infantry Battalion Separate was the first US Army combat unit composed of Americans of Japanese ancestry. Its original members were inducted into the Army before Pearl Harbor. How the loyalty of these soldiers was questioned, put to the test, and finally proved on the battlefields of Europe is the subject of this book.
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Thomas D. Murphy had a distinguished teaching career at the University of Hawai'i. A graduate of Wesleyan University, he received his PhD from Yale University. Before coming to Hawai'i in 1946 as a member of the university's history department and chairman of the Hawaii War Records Committee, he taught at New Haven State Teachers College, the University of Connecticut, and Yale University. He also served as the executive director of the Connecticut War Records Commission.