Uploaded December 2021 | Updated September 2026, 8 hours ago
Ray Nosaka, a veteran of the original 100th Infantry Battalion from Hawai'i, reflects on the unusual and prejudiced treatment he and the other Japanese Americans received after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Drafted in 1940, he was assigned to the 298th Regiment, Hawaii National Guard, E Company at Schofield Barracks. After the bombing, they were told to scout and guard the beaches, with white soldiers watching over them on the cliffs above. Eventually, they were told to turn in their weapons, and only one of their Lieutenants wept for them.
Ray Nosaka, a veteran of the original 100th Infantry Battalion from Hawai'i, reflects on the unusual and prejudiced treatment he and the other Japanese Americans received after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Drafted in 1940, he was assigned to the 298th Regiment, Hawaii National Guard, E Company at Schofield Barracks. After the bombing, they were told to scout and guard the beaches, with white soldiers watching over them on the cliffs above. Eventually, they were told to turn in their weapons, and only one of their Lieutenants wept for them.
