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Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in WWII
Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in WWII
New-York Historical Society
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The 2022 Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize at the New-York Historical Society
Recorded: December 4, 2023
What does it mean to fight for a country that persecutes and imprisons you because of your ethnic background? After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the US military recruited several thousand first-generation Japanese Americans, or Nisei, to act as expert translators, interpreters, and interrogators on the front lines of the Pacific war, all while their families at home were held behind barbed wire in government internment camps. Author Bruce Henderson, in conversation with military historian Craig L. Symonds, explores this little-known story through the lens of six Japanese American soldiers who went on to help rebuild Japan as a modern democracy and an American ally following the war.
Bruce Henderson is an award-winning journalist and the author of Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II, the winner of the the 2022 Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize at the New-York Historical Society. Craig L. Symonds (moderator), professor of history emeritus at the United States Naval Academy, is a prizewinning author of numerous books on military history and served as chair of the 2022 judging committee for the Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize.
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New-York Historical Society
9.65K subscribers
96 views Feb 20, 2024 #history #newyorkhistoricalsociety
The 2022 Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize at the New-York Historical Society
Recorded: December 4, 2023
What does it mean to fight for a country that persecutes and imprisons you because of your ethnic background? After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the US military recruited several thousand first-generation Japanese Americans, or Nisei, to act as expert translators, interpreters, and interrogators on the front lines of the Pacific war, all while their families at home were held behind barbed wire in government internment camps. Author Bruce Henderson, in conversation with military historian Craig L. Symonds, explores this little-known story through the lens of six Japanese American soldiers who went on to help rebuild Japan as a modern democracy and an American ally following the war.
Bruce Henderson is an award-winning journalist and the author of Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II, the winner of the the 2022 Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize at the New-York Historical Society. Craig L. Symonds (moderator), professor of history emeritus at the United States Naval Academy, is a prizewinning author of numerous books on military history and served as chair of the 2022 judging committee for the Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize.
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