Go For Broke: The Nisei Warriors of World War II Who Conquered Germany, Japan, and American Bigotry by C. Sterner

Author:C. Sterner [Sterner, C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: American Legacy Historical Press
Published: 2015-02-22T22:00:00+00:00

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departed France to return to Italy. The unit had been brought back to regimental strength through the arrival of replacements

throughout the winter. For the men who had been with the team

since the early days and had survived the Vosges, upon arriving

near Pisa, it was almost as if time had stood still during the team’s

absence. Very little had changed.

In the previous campaign the 100th/442d had joined the Fifth

Army in the bitter battle to secure the western coast of Italy, digging

the high Appenine Mountains. From the 100th Infantry Battalion’s

reunited Combat Team into France a year later, the Nisei had fought

- coast of northern Italy still stalled before the formidable Gothic Line. Throughout the winter the enemy had built up their forces, reinforced their positions, and strengthened their hold in the high mountains.

The Allied campaign to push the Germans out of Italy had been a veritable coalition of wide national and ethnic diversity. The British Eighth Army had battled along the eastern slopes of the Apen

had battled its way into Senio. Polish soldiers had fought valiantly throughout the campaign, most notably in the struggle to take Monte Cassino, an effort that almost wiped out an entire Polish battalion. the Brazilian Corps of 25,000 soldiers entered the battle for Italy in August 1944. The American Fifth Army also included the 92d Division, the all-black American Army unit.

The battle for northern Italy had continued for these Allies through the winter of 1944-45. While the 442d had fought valiantly in the Vosges, they assumed their border patrols in Southern France. Late in 1944 General Mark Clark was appointed to command the 15th Army Group and command of the Fifth Army had fallen to General Lucian Truscott. While the advance had stalled along the Gothic Line, General Clark began developing a plan to crush enemy resistance by ordering the Fifth Army in a bold frontal assault on the Gothic Line while simultaneously moving the Eight Army westward from

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