... General Delos C. Emmons and Fleet Chief Admiral Chester Nimitz who recommended the use of Japanese American soldiers. During a hearing of a military board appointed in July 1942 to study the question of allowing Japanese Americans to be soldiers, Colonel Pettigrew stated: ="The great majority of second-generation citizens of Japanese ancestry was unquestionably loyal. (He recommended) that a Division of these men be ... formed in the Army of the United States for combat duty in the theater of war where they would not have to fight Japanese . . . that if such a Division were formed, he wo...

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