The young Nisei, thirty-three hundred of them, reported for duty, their oversize packs dwarfing their average five-foot-five stature. Their training in Mississippi had to be extra rigorous, because the Japanese American men would stand alone in battle, unsupported by other units. They would have their own equipment, their own mechanics, their own medics, all Japanese Americans. They, too, were forced to ride with the window shades drawn when they passed through towns, so as not to scare the white people who might be watching.
