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Exhibit honors Japanese American who fought for US in WWII while their families were locked up
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, second-generation Japanese American soldiers signed up to fight for the United States in World War II even as their families were locked up in government-run internment camps and declared " alien enemies " of the state.
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Japanese American soldiers once branded 'enemy aliens' to be promoted posthumously
Seven Japanese American soldiers are being promoted to officer ranks in a solemn ceremony that comes eight decades after they died fighting for the U.
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WWII Navy destroyer explosion victims may be at LI cemetery
The family of a Pennsylvania naval officer, killed more than eight decades ago when an anchored Navy destroyer exploded and sank off New York Harbor, believes their loved ones' remains may be buried and intermingled with other victims of the World War II disaster in four unknown sailor graves at Long Island National Cemetery, Pinelawn.
