The 442nd Saves Unit

ID: 4341 ~ Source: Footage courtesy of the U.S. Army News and Media YouTube channel
This file appears in: The Hillyard Hand Laundry

Newsreel footage from 1944 covering the heroic rescue of the Lost Battalion by the Japanese-American comprised 442nd Combat Regiment in WWII.

This file appears in: The Hillyard Hand Laundry

By Anna Harbine
Being Japanese in Hillyard was not always easy. Home to a large community of railroad workers of every nationality, conflicts between the Japanese and other laborers were frequent, sometimes resulting…