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Postal Honor for Japanese Americans who served in WWII
By admin | December 29, 2007
More than 30,000 Nisei (second generation Japanese Americans) volunteered during WWII. What resulted was a mostly Japanese American unit called the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and 100th Infantry Battalion which became one of the most highly decorated units in U.S. Military History.
The Downtown Los Angeles Japanese American Citizens League is supporting the effort and is hoping that the U.S. Postal Service Commemorative stamp Review committee will approve the request when they meet in January 2008.
The U.S. Postal Service has issued commemorative stamps honoring minority veterans in the past including honoring Latin Veterans in 1984 and the African American Buffalo Soldiers about ten years later. Among the success of the 442nd was the rescue of a Texas batallion trapped in the Vosges mountains of France. Its reported that the 442nd Regimental Combat lost four men for every Texan rescued.
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