No sword to bury : Japanese Americans in Hawai'i during World War II /
When bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Japanese American college students were among the many young men enrolled in ROTC and immediately called upon to defend the Hawaiian islands against invasion. In a few weeks, however, the military government questioned their loyalty and disarmed them....
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2004
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| Series: | Asian American history and culture.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | When bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Japanese American college students were among the many young men enrolled in ROTC and immediately called upon to defend the Hawaiian islands against invasion. In a few weeks, however, the military government questioned their loyalty and disarmed them. In No Sword to Bury, Franklin Odo places the largely untold story of the wartime experience of these young men in the context of the community created by their immigrant families and its relationship to the larger, white-dominated society. At the heart of the book are vivid oral histories that reca. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-314) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781592138036 1592138039 9781592132072 1592132073 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
