Bridge to the Sun Audiobook Libro.fm

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One of the last great untold stories of World War IIkept hidden for decadeseven after most of the World War II records were declassified in 1972 many of the files remained untouched in various archivesa gripping true tale of courage and adventure from Bruce Henderson master storyteller historian and New York Times bestselling author of Sons and Soldiersthe saga of the Japanese American US Army soldiers who fought in the Pacific theater in Burma Iwo Jima Okinawa with their families back home in America under US Executive Order 9066 held behind barbed wire in government internment camps

After Japans surprise attack on Pearl Harbor the US military was desperate to find Americans who spoke Japanese to serve in the Pacific war They soon turned to the Niseifirstgeneration US citizens whose parents were immigrants from Japan Eager to prove their loyalty to America several thousand Niseimany of them volunteering from the internment camps where they were being held behind barbed wirewere selected by the Army for topsecret training then were rushed to the Pacific theater Highly valued as expert translators and interrogators these Japanese American soldiers operated in elite intelligence teams alongside Army infantrymen and Marines on the front lines of the Pacific war from Iwo Jima to Burma from the Solomons to Okinawa

Henderson reveals in riveting detail the harrowing untold story of the Nisei and their major contributions in the war of the Pacific through six Japanese American soldiers After the war these soldiers became translators and interrogators for war crime trials and later helped to rebuild Japan as a modern democracy and a pivotal US ally