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Rising Son - A US Soldier's Secret and Heroic Role in World War II (Hardcover)
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Rising Son - A US Soldier's Secret and Heroic Role in World War II (Hardcover)
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The remarkable story of a Japanese American who served in a
top-secret team in World War II that coaxed Japanese Imperial
soldiers from their bunkers on the front lines of the war in the
Pacific. Masao Abe was a second-generation Japanese American who
was swept up in the momentum of history during World War II. Born
in southern California but educated as a teenager in Japan during
the 1930s, he returned to the US and was drafted into the US Army.
As he completed basic training, the attack on Pearl Harbor put his
military career in limbo because the US government didn't know what
to do with him or how to think about him--was he an enemy or a
patriot? Masao was eventually recruited to join the secretive
Military Intelligence Service: he was trained to accompany American
soldiers as they fought their way across the islands in the
Pacific. His assignment was to convince Japanese Imperial soldiers
to lay down their arms, and to read captured documents looking for
enemy strategies. He went to war with a bodyguard because his
commanders knew he wore a target on his front and his back. This
little-known slice of history reveals how the confluence of race,
war, and loyalty played out when the nation called for the service
of those it judged most harshly.
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