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During World War Two, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team was formed out of Nisei, second-generation Japanese Americans. They earned more than 4,000 Purple Heart awards between them.

120,000 Japanese Americans living on the west coast had been sent to internment camps after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941 but many were keen to show their loyalty to the US.

Later, there was a drive to recruit Japanese Americans into the war effort, and the 442nd RCT was formed. Among the volunteers was 19-year-old Matsuichi Kusatsu who had been living in Hawaii.

His son Clyde tells Jane Wilkinson about the prejudice his father and comrades faced and how they came to be known as the Purple Heart Warriors, one of the most decorated army units in US military history.