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Nisei Battalion Highly Lauded
From Gila News-Courier April 25, 1945
The 100th or “One Puka Puka Battalion,” rated by “Axis Sally” as the 7th U.S. Army’s “secret weapon,” boasts officers with the highest I.Q. In the Army, that it has lost only three of its soldiers as prisoners of war, that it has approximately 1600 wearers of the Purple Heart, and that never has one of its soldiers gone absent without leave.
This is how Catherine Coyne, feature writer for the Boston Herald, described the Nisei battalion in an article of March 26, 1945.
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April 25, 1945
Page: 2
+ Gila News-Courier
Media Type: Camp Newspaper
Place: Rivers
State: Arizona
Country: United States
The Gila News-Courier (September 12, 1942 to September 5, 1945) was the main publication of the Gila River camp, and one of the last of the ten War Relocation Authority camp newspapers to begin regular production and distribution. The News-Courier alternated from publishing every Wednesday and Saturday in its earliest weeks, to every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, out of the Canal News office located in Rec Hall 8. It was distributed free of charge to every barrack room.
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People mentioned in this clipping: Catherine Coyne