Bridge to the sun, the secret role of the Japanese Americans who fought in the Pacific in World War II, Bruce Henderson
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Bridge to the sun, the secret role of the Japanese Americans who fought in the Pacific in World War II, Bruce Henderson
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eng
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non fiction
Main title
Bridge to the sun
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1291346775
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Bruce Henderson
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the secret role of the Japanese Americans who fought in the Pacific in World War II
Summary
Here is one of the last, great untold stories of World War II - kept hidden for decades - even after most of the records of that war were declassified. In this true tale of courage, bravery, and adventure, Bruce Henderson, master storyteller and historian, brilliantly pieces together the sage of the Japanese American soldiers who fought in the Pacific theater. Tjis book follows six U.S. soldiers, among the first Nisei in combat in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, deployed in elite intelligence units to the jungles of New Georgia, the caves of Okinawa, and the mountains of Burma with the famed Merrill's Marauders. They were, in effect, fighting two wars simultaneously: one, overseas against their ancestral homeland; the other, against racial prejudice at home, where their families faced suspicion and racial hatred, and under U.S. Executive Order 9066, were held behind barbed wire in government internment camps. Henderson reveals in riveting detail the harrowing account of the Nisei soldiers fighting in the Pacific. After the war, many became translators and interrogators for war crime trials, and helped to rebuild Japan as a modern democracy and a pivotal U.S. ally. A mesmerizing account of extraordinary men at war, fighting for America and for its promise of freedom
Table of contents
Prologue: Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945 -- The type of soldier we want -- "Harm them ... harm me" -- "Where is Pearl Harbor?" -- Executive Order 9066 -- Rope in the open sea -- Camp Savage -- Solomons Islands -- North to Alaska -- The cousins -- A hazardous mission -- Merrill's Marauders -- Myitkyina -- The Admiralties -- Sulphur Island -- The last invasion -- China -- Return to Japan -- Okinawa, Spring 1995 -- Dramatis personae -- Afterword / by Gerald Yamada
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adult
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