AANHPI History Calendar

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442nd Regimental Combat Team Activated

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President Roosevelt activated the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a segregated Nisei unit drawn from Hawaii and the mainland camps that became the most decorated unit of its size in US military history.

Communities
  • Japanese American
Topics
  • military
Event type
  • legislation
Places
  • Hawaii

Sources

  • army.mil army.mil/article/283793/key_military_unit_the_442nd_regimental_combat_team
  • nationalww2museum.org nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/442nd-regimental-combat-team

Also on February 1

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Korean National Association Founded

Korean immigrants merged mainland and Hawaii groups to form the Korean National Association in San Francisco; led by Ahn Chang-ho, it became the main organizing body for Koreans in America and a hub of the diaspora's independence movement. (Shares Feb 1 with the 442nd RCT's activation.)