The remaining third were Nisei from the mainland. In April 1943, the islanders and mainlanders arrived for training at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. Immediately, they fought with each other because of ...
“And the legacy of the nisei veterans and their stories will ... Americans who were forced into internment and detention camps across the nation, including 1,300 people in Hawaii where there ...
Born in Lahaina, he was one of thousands of Japanese-American, or Nisei, soldiers who volunteered ... Now 100 years old, he still remembers training at Camp Shelby in Mississippi.
The Honolulu Advertiser March 21, 1955 In 1955, Pan Am hired an initial class of 20 “Nisei” or second generation Japanese Americans to service flights between San Francisco, Honolulu and Tokyo ...