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442nd Regimental Combat Team

DEDICATED ON AUGUST 17, 1992. BY E COMPANY VETERANS 
OF THE 442ND REGIMENTAL COMBAT TEAM, THE MOST DECORATED 
UNITED STATES ARMY UNIT OF WORLD WAR II. THE ALL VOLUNTEER 
442ND REGIMENTAL COMBAT TEAM WAS COMPOSED OF AMERICANS OF 
JAPANESE ANCESTRY, FROM THE TERRITORY OF HAWAII 
AND THE UNITED STATES, MANY THAT VOLUNTEERED FROM 
AMERICAN CONCENTRATION CAMPS, İNTO WHICH THESE CITIZENS 
HAD BEEN FORCEFULLY EVACUATED 
BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT IN 1942 
 
 

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