The 442nd Regimental Combat Team, composed of Japanese-American volunteers


In April 1945, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, composed of Japanese-American volunteers, deployed to the Gothic Line in the Apennine Mountains bordering Italy and France. 

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On April 21, 1945, Second Lieutenant Daniel K. Inouye, of Honolulu, Hawaii, skillfully directed his platoon through a hail of automatic weapon and small arms fire, while attacking a defended ridge guarding an important road junction, near San Terenzo, Italy. He was shot in the stomach and lost his right arm. Despite these injuries, he remained in the military until 1947 and was honorably discharged with the rank of captain.


Inouye was awarded the Medal of Honor for his extraordinary actions on this day. Inouye was one of the Japanese American servicemen of the 442nd Regiment whose combat awards were upgraded to the Medal of Honor by President Bill Clinton in 2000.

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Returning to Hawaii after the war, Inouye  earned a law degree and was elected to Hawaii’s territorial House of Representatives in 1953 and to the territorial Senate in 1957. When Hawaii achieved statehood in 1959, Inouye was elected as its first member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and in 1962 he was elected to the U.S. Senate. He was the first Japanese American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives and later the first in the U.S. Senate. Inouye was the most senior U.S. senator and the President pro tempore of the Senate at the time of his death, making him the highest-ranking Asian-American politician in U.S. history.

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