January
19, 1942
The 317 Nisei members of the HTG are discharged without
explanation and classified as 4-C, “enemy aliens.” |
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January
23, 1942
Japanese Americans in the military on the mainland are segregated
out of their units. |
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February
19, 1942
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order
9066, setting the stage for the incarceration of more
than 110,000 Japanese Americans in camps throughout the
United States. |
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Posting
of Executive Order 9066. |
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February
25, 1942
The all-Nisei Varsity Victory Volunteers (Triple V) is formed
in Hawaii as part of the 34th Combat Engineers Regiment. |
March
30, 1942
A War Department order discontinues the induction of Japanese
Americans in the armed services on the West Coast. |
May 1942
Graduates of the first class of MIS Language School are
sent to the Aleutians and the South Pacific. Field commanders
clamor for more Nisei linguists. |
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May 1942
Richard Sakakida becomes P.O.W. when Corregidor falls. |
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May
25, 1942
MIS Language School is moved from San Francisco, California
to Camp Savage, Minnesota because of the exclusion order,
restricting all people of Japanese ancestry from military
zones. |
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May
26, 1942
General George C. Marshall issues an order establishing
the Hawaii Provisional Infantry Battalion, made up of Japanese
Americans from the Hawaii National Guard. |
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Training in
Hawaii for Selective Service. |
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June 1942
The 147 Nisei students of the second class of the MISLS
graduates. These students were recruited from various military
organizations within the Continental U.S. |
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MIS
personnel, checking documents. |
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June
5, 1942
1,432 members of the Hawaii Provisional Infantry Battalion
depart Honolulu for San Francisco. |
June
12, 1942
100th Infantry Battalion (Separate) is officially activated
on the Oakland docks. |
June
17, 1942
The War Department announces that it will not “accept
for service with the armed forces, Japanese or persons
of Japanese extraction, regardless of citizenship status
or other factors.” |
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June
26, 1942
The Army Chief of Staff G-2 Section recommends the formation
of a Board of Military Utilization of U.S. Citizens of Japanese
Ancestry, to determine whether a Japanese American unit
ought to be sent to fight in Europe. |
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October
2, 1942
Elmer Davis, Office of War Information Director, recommends
to President Roosevelt that Japanese Americans be allowed
to enlist for military service. This provided the initiative
for the concept of an all-JA military unit. |
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Nisei trainees
being welcomed to an infantry replacement training
center. |
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October
31, 1942
Twenty-six men from the 100th (Company B, Third Platoon)
leave Camp McCoy, Wisconsin for Ship Island and Cat Island
off the Mississippi Gulf coast, on special assignment to
be used to train dogs to recognize and attack Japanese,
based on their supposedly unique scent. |
November-December
1942
Third class of the MISLS was recruited from: (1) U.S.
concentration camps, (2) 100th Infantry Battalion in Camp
McCoy, and (3) various military organizations within Continental
U.S. |
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Late
1942
Richard Sakakida engineers a prison break. 500 prisoners
escape. |
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