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Books on the 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team:

  • Honor By Fire: Japanese Americans at War in Europe and the Pacific by Lyn Crost, republished in 1994. A war correspondent who served in the Pacific and Europe tells the stories of the men of the 442nd and 100th who "fought not only the enemy, but prejudice."
  • Go for Broke: A Pictorial History of the Japanese American 100th Infantry and 442nd Regimental Combat Team by Chester Tayaka, reprint, 1997. Gives a unique pictorial insight to military history as Japanese American men volunteered to fight in World War II.
  • "I Can Never Forget" Men of 100th/442nd by Thelma Chang, 1991. Decades after the war, Japanese American soldiers of World War II share their innermost thoughts and feelings about a time in their lives that they can never forget.
  • Bridge of Love by John Tsukano. Shares the story of the Japanese immigrants, Issei, and their second generation-soldier sons, Nisei, in pictures and letters of correspondence.

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