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After the attack on Pearl Harbor, a suspicious U.S. government ordered 110,000 people of Japanese descent into internment camps. Yet when offered the chance to join the Army, many Japanese Americans jumped at the opportunity to prove their loyalty. Hundreds ended up in the 100th Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team, a Japanese American unit that saw some of the hardest fighting of World War II.
Perhaps their finest hour came in October 1944 in the Vosges Mountains of France, where the Germans had surrounded 211 U.S. soldiers, many of them Texans, on a ridgetop. “Medical supplies low, no rations for three days . . . need ammunition,” the desperate Americans radioed. News reports called the Texans the “Lost Battalion.” The 100th/442nd got orders to save them.