422. Piyade Alayı
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| 422. Piyade Alayı the 442nd Regimental Combat Team |
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| Etkin | 10 Ağustos 1944 - 15 Ağustos 1946 31 Temmuz 1947 - 12 Aralık 1969 |
| Ülke |  ABD |
| Bağlılık |  Amerika Birleşik Devletleri Kara Kuvvetleri ve Reserve |
| Tipi | Piyade |
| Garnizon/Merkez | Oakland, California (15 Haziran 1942, 100. Piyade Taburu'nun kuruluşu) Camp McCoy, Wisconsin (Haziran 1942 - Ocak 1943) Camp Sehelby, Mississippi (1 Şubat 1943, 442. Alay'ın kuruluşu) Camp Shelby, Mississippi (Ocak 1943 - ) |
| Savaşları | II. Dünya Savaşı: Avalanche Harekâtı (100. Piyade Taburu), Monte Cassino Muharebesi (100. Piyade Taburu), Dragoon Harekâtı: Bruyères - Biffontaine Muharebesi, Lost Battalion Kurtarması, Second Wind Harekâtı Irak Savaşı |
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| Ünlü komutanları |
Albay Charles W. Pence Albay Virgil R. Miller |
442. Piyade Alayı (İngilizce resmî adı: the 442nd Regimental Combat Team), II. Dünya Savaşı sırasında Amerika Birleşik Devletleri Kara Kuvvetleri'nde "Nisei" (Japon asıllı ikinci kuşakı)lerden oluşturulan askerî birim. ABD tarihinde en çok madalya kazanan askerî birim.
Konu başlıkları |
Arka plan [değiştir]
Pearl Harbor [değiştir]
Midway Muharebesi [değiştir]
100. Piyade Taburu [değiştir]
Muharebeler [değiştir]
442. Alay [değiştir]
Muharebeler [değiştir]
Decorations [değiştir]
The 442nd RCT became the most decorated unit in U.S. military history for its size and length of service, with its component 100th Infantry Battalion earning the nickname “The Purple Heart Battalion”. [1] The 442nd RCT received 7 Presidential Unit Citations (5 earned in one month), and its members received 18,143 awards, including:
- 21 Medals of Honor (the first awarded posthumously to Private First Class Sadao Munemori, Company A, 100th Battalion, for action near Seravezza, Italy, on April 5, 1945; the others upgraded from other awards in June 2000). Recipients include:
- Barney F. Hajiro
- Mikio Hasemoto
- Joe Hayashi
- Shizuya Hayashi
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Yeiki Kobashigawa
- Robert T. Kuroda
- Kaoru Moto
- Sadao Munemori
- Kiyoshi K. Muranaga
- Masato Nakae
- Shinyei Nakamine
- William K. Nakamura
- Joe M. Nishimoto
- Allan M. Ohata
- James K. Okubo
- Yukio Okutsu
- Frank H. Ono
- Kazuo Otani
- George T. Sakato
- Ted T. Tanouye
- 52 Distinguished Service Crosses (including 19 Distinguished Service Crosses which were upgraded to Medals of Honor in June 2000)
- 1 Distinguished Service Medal
- 560 Silver Stars (plus 28 Oak Leaf Clusters for a second award)
- 22 Legion of Merit Medals
- 15 Soldier’s Medals
- 4,000 Bronze Stars (plus 1,200 Oak Leaf Clusters for a second award; one Bronze Star was upgraded to a Medal of Honor in June 2000. One Bronze Star was upgraded to a Silver Star in September 2009.)
- 9,486 Purple Hearts
Presidential Unit Citation [değiştir]
- Belvedere
- Biffontaine
- Biffontaine
- Belmont
- Belmont
- Gothic Lines
- Vorges
- France & Italy
Campaign medal [değiştir]
- Napoles, Foggia
- Roma, Arno
- Southern France
- Rhineland
- Central Europe
- North Apennines
- Po Valley
Refarens [değiştir]
- Masayo Umezawa Duus, Peter Duus, Unlikely Liberators: The Men of the 100th and 442nd, University of Hawaii Press, 1987, 9780824831400,
- Pierre Moulin, Dachau, Holocaust, and US Samurais: Nisei Soldiers First in Dachau?, AuthorHouse, 2007, ISBN 9781425938017, pp. 126-127.
- Wendy L. Ng, Japanese American internment during World War II: a history and reference guide, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN 978-0-313-31375-2, pp. 66-67
Not [değiştir]
- ^ "Research On 100th/442nd Regimental Combat Team". National Japanese American Historical Society. http://www.njahs.org/research/442.html. Erişim tarihi: 2008-09-23.
