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To: Wayners who wrote (660318)	11/16/2004 1:04:26 AM
From: DavesM	Respond to of 769670

Frankly, probably the major reason for internment camps, was that the U.S. (I believe) hoped that the camps could act as a bargaining chip with the Japanese - and their treatment of American POWs. I guess, the problem, is that the Japanese viewed Japanese Americans, as Americans. Leaders in the Japanese Americans Citizen League also advocated the creation of a "suicide battalion", interestingly enough the Japanese American 442 combat group had the greatest casualty rate of any unit its size in the U.S. Army. Further, IMO a major reason for the success of the Japanese attack (on Pearl Harbor), was that American commanders viewed Hawaii National Guardsmen (with its large numbers of Japanese Americans) as a greater threat, than the Japanese Fleet. The commanders of Pearl were warned that war was eminent, and acted according to what they viewed as the greater threat - sabotage from Japanese Americans attached to Guard Units defending American bases (or sabotage committed by Japanese Nationals, while Japanese American troops looked the other way).