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...single House seat, Hawaii's fast-rising Democrat Dan Inouye, 34, who lost his right arm in action with the famous Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team in World War II, resoundingly beat Mrs. Patsy Takemoto Mink, 31. He will run against Republican Charles H. Silva, 55, Hawaii's Territorial Director of Institutions...
...June 27 Senate primary race the party's youngest, brightest star: Territorial Senator Daniel K. Inouye, 34, a lawyer who lost his right arm and won a D.S.C. as a second lieutenant platoon leader in World War II's famed "Go For Broke" Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Agreeing to try for Hawaii's lone House of Representatives seat instead, Inouye made no bones about the reason for his decision: "It would give some elder statesmen in our party a clear field...
...Connally eat his words. En route, the Hawaiians stopped off at Austin, Texas, and got a rousing reception from old friends in Texas' 36th Division. The reason: a "lost battalion" of the Texas 36th, when encircled by the enemy in France in 1944, was rescued by the U.S. 442nd regimental combat team, which was made up mostly of Hawaiian-born Japanese-Americans. At the time, none of the Texans made inquiries about the Hawaiians' ancestry...
...Broke! (MGM) adds another laurel to one of the most decorated U.S. combat units of World War II,* the Nisei of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Treated at first with taunts and suspicion, rankled by the knowledge that their families were herded into resettlement camps, the Nisei proved themselves both loyal Americans and superb fighting...
...slang for "Shoot the works!") follows the outfit from a U.S. training camp into the heat of the Italian and French campaigns. It tells the story largely in terms of a Texas-proud lieutenant (Van Johnson) whose Nisei men gradually overcome his prejudice against them. At the climax, the 442nd's rescue of a trapped battalion of the 36th (Texas) Infantry Division in France's Vosges Mountains, even Johnson's diehard, Jap-hating buddy (Don Haggerty) takes the Nisei to his bosom...