The 442nd was demobilized in Honolulu in 1946, but reactivated in 1947 in the U.S. Army Reserve. It was mobilized in 1968 to refill the Strategic Reserve during the Vietnam War. About 4,000 soldiers were mobilized at Schofield Barracks in 1968-69. Of those, about 1,100 were sent to Vietnam to be inserted into active-duty units. Twenty soldiers with the Hawaii Army National Guard and nine reservists with the 100th Battalion, 442nd Infantry, were killed in Vietnam
Today, the 100th Battalion, 442nd Infantry, survives as the only infantry unit of the Army Reserve. The unit has its headquarters at Fort Shafter, Hawaii, and elements based in Hilo, Hawaii, American Samoa, Saipan, and Guam. The shoulder patch combines the original steam boat of Camp Shelby Mississippi on the bottom of the 442nd Regiment patch and the taro leaf on the top of the 100th original patch. The Motto is officially now “Go for Broke.”
In August 2004, the battalion was activated for duty in Iraq as one of the maneuver battalions of the 29th Separate Infantry Brigade, Hawaii Army National Guard under Col. Bruce E. Oliveira. The unit mobilized at Schofield Barracks,…show more content… He grew up in the Bingham Tract, a Chinese-American enclave within the predominantly Japanese-American community of Mo'ili'ili in Honolulu. He was at the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941 as a medical volunteer.
In 1943, when the U.S. Army dropped its ban on Japanese-Americans, Inouye curtailed his premedical studies at the University of Hawaii and enlisted in the Army. He was assigned to the Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which became the most-highly decorated unit in the history of the Army. During the World War II campaign in Europe, he received the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart, and the Distinguished Service Cross, which was later upgraded to the Medal of
