Gen. Mark W. Clark would present the Presidential Citation for outstanding action in combat to the 100th Infantry Battalion, which was composed of Japanese-American troops. Photo by U.S. Army.

The 100th Battalion was originally comprised of nisei, or second-generation Japanese American soldiers from Hawaii, and was formed as a segregated unit on June 12, 1942, when there was distrust ...

In addition to the MIS, young Japanese-Americans joined the all-Nikkei 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which would become among the most decorated units in World War ...

Eventually, the Army decided that Prestre’s targets would be 25 soldiers from the 100th Infantry Battalion (Separate), a segregated unit of Japanese American draftees from the Hawaii National Guard.

The 442nd Infantry Regiment, including the 100th Infantry Battalion, was composed almost entirely of second-generation American soldiers of Japanese ancestry, who fought in Italy and southern France.

Second-generation Japanese American Tomoe Oketani began working ... the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the 100th Infantry Battalion, were comprised almost entirely of men of Japanese descent.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A group of school children in L’Escarene in southern France shared their aloha with special ...