In February 1943 the Army created the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and solicited volunteers. The initial goal was three thousand enlistees from the continental US and 1,500 from Hawaii. More than ten thousand Nisei men volunteered from Hawaii. Barely one thousand volunteered from the US West Coast states—universal detention clearly dampened enthusiasm in the mainland. In Hawaii, 2,686 were accepted to the 442nd.
