Originally Posted by Dovster
1. There was only one Japanese-American even charged with treason -- and that was Toyko Rose, who spent the war in Japan, not America.
2. There were no acts of sabotage or espionage carried out by Japanese-Americans either before or after Pearl Harbor.
3. Japanese-Americans fought bravely in the European Theatre while their parents and sisters were being kept in internment camps.
4. Italian-Americans were in no way considered suspect because of their background.
5. German-Americans were not only not considered suspect but one of them was even allowed to have a fairly important job in the fight against the Nazis: Dwight D. Eisenhower.
When a Japanese pilot crash landed his Zero on the island of Niihau, a few of the local Japanese aided him, provided protection, and guarded his flight plans and documents. The attacks on the Ellwood oil field in Oregon and the Goleta oil fields, launching seaplanes that dropped incendiary bombs in Oregon, the sinking and attack of numerous ships on the West Coast by Japanese submarines, were all aided by Japanese in the U.S who in engaged in espionage and gathered and provided strategic information.
General Patton, in 1937, while stationed in Oahu was very concerned about the growing fifth column of Japanese who were gathering general information on U.S. military activities and were loyal to Japan. In that same year a group of Japanese formed the Japanese Military Servicemens League based in San Francisco, which grew to more than 12,000 members by 1941. This League engaged in intel gathering and plans were drawn for sabotage against railroads, harbors, bridges, etc. Even its prospectus stated, “Whenever the Japanese government begins a military campaign, we Japanese must be united and do his part for Japan” and “to assist in financing the war with the utmost effort on the part of
both the first and second generation Japanese and whoever is a descendant of the Japanese race.” (These types of statements rang through many of the Japanese documents that were siezed by the FBI and others before and during the war, hence the reason many Japanese were questioned because of their race.) The Japanese on Hawaii purchased over 3 million yen of war bonds leading up to the invasion in 41, with most of these transactions handled by the consular officials in the islands. In Hawaii and on the West Coast thousands of Japanese prior to and during the war sent care packages and any type of scrap metal for war material to the Rising Sun.
Prior to Pear Harbor, reporters from two American based newspapers, World Sun Daily News and Japanese American News, traveled to Japan and received instructions for wide spread intel gathering for after the invasion.
Declassified in the 70s, Japanese government war documents reveal that the Japanese had over 200 agents in Hawaii alone for espionage activity.
The Tachibana spy ring, operating on the West Coast, was shut down in the summer of 1941. The FBI seized documents containing names of espionage agents, locations of military bases, bridges, power stations, data on defense factories, and correspondence between the spy ring and officials in the Japanese government and consular officials in California and Hawaii.
This is just the tip of the iceburg. History revisionism cannot hide the documented facts.
Within one week of Pearl Harbor 1,002 Germans and 169 Italians were apprehended by the FBI. During the course of WW II 10,905 Germans and 3,278 Italains were interned. (Your points 4 and 5 are also false.) In California over 10,000 Italian enemy aliens were evacuated from their homes and over 60,000 were placed on a strict curfew.
Some Japanese/Americans did fight bravely for the U.S. during the war but this does not negate the facts that many Japanese were engaed in espionage and provided assistance in some form to the Japanese governement both before 12/7/41 and after.