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Rec. 9 a.m. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. The War Department announced that American citizens of Japanese ancestry will soqn be subject to military, duty. The United Press says it is understood that the excellent combat record of the Japanese and American volunteers influenced the decision. The 100 th Battalion, a former Hawaiian National Guard unit now in Italy with the Fifth Army, lias won a number of commendations and had 96 killed, 22 wounded, and 17 missing.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 18, 22 January 1944, Page 7
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