Just Americans
Subtitle: how Japanese Americans won a war at home and abroad : the story of the 100th Battalion/442d Regimental Combat Team in World War II
By: Robert Asahina.
Edition: 1st trade pbk.
Publisher: Gotham Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9781592403004
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans.; Japanese American soldiers -- History -- 20th century.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Western Front.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Gotham Books, c2006.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-324) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : Jap Road; title: Citizens. One Puka Puka : the Mainland, Hawaii, and the 100th Battalion (Separate) ; Kotonk v. Buddahead : volunteers, the cadre, and the 442d Regimental Combat Team ; "what we're fighting for" : draftees and replacements; title: Soldiers. Dragoon : the 36th "Texas" Division and the race up the Rhône ; Dogfaces : the liberation of Bruyères ; The battle for the high ground : from Belmont to Biffontaine ; Dark nights of the soul : the lost battalion ; Go for broke : "What others fear to attempt" ; Casualties : "Let them loose"; title: Veterans. Homecoming : "Americans first class"; title: Afterword. "Here we admit a wrong"; title: Epilogue. Hill of sacrifice; title: Appendix. Pearl Harbor and 9/11.