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Japanese Americans at least have several movies about the 442nd and the 100th serving their nation (USA) in Italy during WWII.
At the time, the American military held legitimate concerns that enemy Japanese soldiers might try to disguise themselves as Japanese American G.I.s and infiltrate American lines. In fact, Japanese soldiers did attempt that on numerous occasions during ferocious island battles. But without the ability to speak English with a North American accent like Japanese Americans, their effectiveness was limited. As a result, Japanese American soldiers deployed to Europe (Italy). They were fortunate. Fighting on hot, steaming, disease-ridden jungled Pacific islands was total misery. On the other hand, the ferocious German war machine was in several ways superior to the imperial Japanese Army.

Nonetheless, many other Asian Americans served in the U.S. military, specifically Chinese Americans and Filipinos (in much smaller numbers, not counting those in the doomed Philippines). No other war movie has credited those men.

Five years after WWII, individual Chinese Americans were drafted into the U.S. Army and found themselves fighting the North Koreans and the Chinese Communists. There was no racial hesitation on the part of U.S. military authorities this time around. The Chinese Nationalist Kuomintang were allies of the U.S. during WWII. The Kuomintang were defeated by the Chinese communists and fled to Taiwan but remained steadfast allies of the U.S. As a result there would be no government-tolerated racial hate campaign against the Chinese during the Korean War as against the Japanese in WWII.

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