ABSTRACT
A large number of Nisei soldiers had been sent to the front, most famously in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team of the Army's 100th Battalion, which saw heavy action in Europe. General Charles Willoughby, chief of intelligence under General MacArthur, commented that the contributions of Nisei soldiers shortened the duration of the war by as much as two years. Many Nisei GIs had families and relatives in Hiroshima who were killed by the atomic bomb, but others were lucky enough to be able to reunite with parents, siblings, and relatives from whom they had long been separated. Nisei living in Japan gradually became aware that they were citizens of the country that had won the war. Not all of the Nisei who arrived in Japan came as victorious soldiers. It is said that leaders among the Issei who maintained an unfaltering allegiance to Japan exerted a strong influence over the Kibei Nisei in the camps.
