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442nd Regt Combat Team

Dahlquist was division commander for the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a unit composed mostly of Japanese Americans. Many 442nd veterans felt Dahlquist was an incompetent who treated Japanese American soldiers as more expendable than white soldiers, citing in particular their famous Rescue of the Lost Battalion. In October, 1944, Dahlquist ordered the 141st Infantry Regiment (Texas National Guard) to advance beyond friendly lines, despite their warning that they would be cut off by the enemy. When German forces promptly surrounded the Texan regiment's 1st Battalion, instead of pressing other elements of the 141st to effect a rescue, Dahlquist sent in the 442nd, which was already short-handed and fatigued from 10 days of continuous fighting. After six days of desperate combat, the 442nd finally broke through to the beleaguered battalion, having suffered about 800 casualties to rescue 211 Texans. Given their devastating losses, the men of the 442nd expected to be relieved. Instead, Dahlquist ordered them to continue to secure the enemy-infested forest for another 9 days. By the time the 442nd was finally relieved, it had lost more than half its normal combat strength. Dahlquist ordered the 442nd to assemble for a recognition ceremony, which was so poorly attended that he admonished a 442nd colonel: “You disobeyed my orders. I told you to have the whole regiment.” Replied the colonel, “General, this is the regiment. The rest are either dead or in the hospital.”



It is said that at a reunion of the 442nd long after the war ended, Dahlquist tried to shake the hand of a colonel who served in the regiment, asking him that 'bygones be bygones' and suggesting that what happened between him and the regiment was 'water under the bridge'. The colonel returned his salute but refused to shake his hand.

The above information was removed from the article for introducing POV. If there is a controversy, it is more appropriately addressed on the article about the mission or the 442nd. The reference for the second paragraph has nothing as far as information pertaining to the paragraph it is used for. Perhaps it was discussed during the show, but the phrase, "It is said," seems to demonstrate the reliability of this source. Who said? When? --Born2flie (talk) 19:47, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

  1. Go For Broke National Education Center: Rescue of the Lost Battalion
  2. The War: FUBAR
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