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image located by Bill Garrison, 26 July 2022
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"Nisei" is the most commonly used term to define Americans of Japanese
ancestry [Japanese-Americans] born in the U.S. They are the sons and daughters
of Japanese who immigrated to the U.S.
Briefly, during World War II, some
Japanese-Americans (Nisei) joined the U.S. military, where they were used to
translate Japanese documents, interrogate Japanese prisoners, and/or formed
Nisei-US military units. These units fought primarily against the Germans in
Europe during WWII, rather than being sent to fight their possible Japanese
relatives in the Pacific -- and we didn't want them to be mistakenly shot as
enemy Japanese soldiers by trigger-happy U.S. military personnel.
Following WWII, they joined or organized U.S. "Veterans of Foreign Wars" (VFW)
or "American Legion" (AL) war-veterans' units (called: "posts" -- as in an Army
base or "post"), and some had their own specialized Nisei-veterans' flags.
Bill Garrison, 26 July 2022
I have found several "Nisei" flags.
Flag above: source,
https://janm.emuseum.com/objects/6192/fourth-district-nisei-memorial-post-1961-veterans-of-forei
2 negatives: b&w; 4 x 5 in., Published in Rafu Shimpo, September 3,
1959.;Fourth District Nisei Memorial Post 1961, Veterans of Foreign Wars present
the organization .
janm.emuseum.com
A flag of the "4th District Nisei Memorial Post No. 1961" associated
with the "Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States" and "Instituted Aug 15,
1953" in Gardena, California.
Bill Garrison, 26 July 2022
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