Well the Japanese-American 442nd Division Was The Most Decorated Unit and i respected them. They hated what they were doing so they volunteered to fight aside the united states. No Japanese Living in USA was EVER Accused of sabotaging the united states yt many americans were killing Japanese In The Pacific.
Yes, Darkie, please flesh out your question considerably more. It is rather vague. BTW, there was no "442nd Division". I think what you are referring to is the 442nd Infantry Regiment.
Made famous by rescuing the "Lost Battalion", 141st Reg, of the 36th ID, in eastern France. Weak post, brave soldiers.
Respect is a matter of ones personal opinion, while a regiment may be the most decorated theres various reasons imo that you really cant choose what group of individuals there would be more respect for. Do you respect more the men willing to jump thousands of feet up in the sky out of a perfectly fine aircraft to fight the enemy behind their lines, do you respect the men who do not fight with the gun but with morphine and bandages, or the men who come by boat and storm the beach's full steam ahead. personally while there are more "famous" divisions such as the big red 1, or 506th pir 101st airborne or the many armored divisions who fought during the afrika/italian campaigns, I feel that all the men and women who took a stand against the axis should be well respected by all and I respect each and every one of them(few excepts not worth going into at this time) If your question should state which division or regement was the most decorated well thats a totally different subject to get into which i am unfamilliar with.
I agree with the statement about the 442nd Infantry division. They were a group of young men who were being persecuted because of their culture and heritage and for whatever reason it was they decided that they would fight to protect the very country that persecuted them and locked their families away in the internment camps.
What is the deal with the 442nd Division stuff. It was the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and don't forget the Nisei 100th Infantry Battalion too. Most respected is pure opinion. My Favorite 30th ID.
What is your question regarding the bolded sentence above? The 442nd RCT was made up of the 442nd Infantry Regiment and several independent support units (non-Nissei) which were added and removed as needs and circumstances dictated. The 442nd was a fixed formation made up almost entirely of Nissei, the 442nd RCT was not.
It seems as if he was questioning the repeated use of the term 442nd Infantry Division after it was pointed out the the 442nd was a RCT and not a division. At least that's the way that I figured it to be.
For those of you who are more knowledgible of the German side, which allied divisions were the most highly rated? I am not going to include airborne divisions in the question because they were self-evidently elite formations; regular infantry and armor divisions is what I am interested at.
Again I will ask the question, respected by whom? Since Darkie hasn't been on in a week, maybe anyone who posts up a most respected division would care to explain whom they were most respected by?
Correct assumption, of course almost every unit had smaller units attached and removed throughout the war. Just making the point of the 442 as a Regiment not a Division.
It was an independent unit, originally known as the 100th Battalion, which, with added personnel, became the 442nd IR. Late in the war, when the 92ID was broken up and reformed, it became one of the regiments of that division.
Personally? the one-oh-one is very high in my book along with the 82nd. I have a huge respect for the frogmen in the PTO and the guys who did that same thing in Normandy. also we can't forget all the Squadrons in the air. The Jolly Rogers, the Sundowners , The Fighting Aces.(Forgive me for not butting the actually designations of these) also the 29th that landed in the first waves on Omaha has a huge respect from me also. just the marines and army in the PTO in general.
