Following the Pearl Harbor bombing by the Japanese Empire in December 1941, other Americans were suspicious of Japanese Americans' loyalty to the United States. ... Based on these circumstances, Japanese Americans were no longer treated the same as other Americans.  ... Emmons and Fleet Chief Admiral Chester Nimitz who recommended the use of Japanese American soldiers. During a hearing of a military board appointed in July 1942 to study the question of allowing Japanese Americans to be soldiers, Colonel Pettigrew stated: ="The great majority of second-generation citizens of Japanese anc...

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