Bridge to the sun

the secret role of the Japanese Americans who fought in the Pacific in World War II
Bruce Henderson
Book - 2022

"The true story of the Japanese American soldiers who helped fight the war in the Pacific in World War II"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Henderson, Bruce, 1946- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
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505 0 |a 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 -- Solomon Islands -- North to Alaska -- The cousins -- A hazardous mission -- Merrill's Marauders -- Myitkyina -- The Admiralties -- Sulphur Island -- The last invasion -- China -- Return to Japan -- Epilogue: Okinawa, Spring 1995 -- Dramatis personae -- Afterword / by Gerald Yamada. 
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520 |a One of the last, great untold stories of World War II--kept hidden for decades--even after most of the World War II records were declassified in 1972, many of the files remained untouched in various archives--a gripping true tale of courage and adventure from Bruce Henderson, master storyteller, historian, and New York Times best-selling author of Sons and Soldiers--the saga of the Japanese American U.S. Army soldiers who fought in the Pacific theater, in Burma, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, with their families back home in America, under U.S. Executive Order 9066, held behind barbed wire in government internment camps. 
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