442 - Graphic Novel

Written by Koji Steven Sakai and Phinneas Kiyomura. Illustrated by Rob Sato. Based on one of World War II's most compelling and important stories. The 442nd Regimental Combat Team was the U.S. Army's Japanese American segregated fighting regiment. The 442nd would become the most decorated unit of the War, and the most decorated unit of its size and length of service in American history. Even with their families confined behind barbed wire in American concentration camps, these soldiers fought to rescue a Texas battalion lost behind enemy lines. A fictionalized account based on the actual events, "442" follows young Japanese Americans soldiers as they suffer prejudice, internment and terrible casualties in their battle to rescue the Lost Battalion. Paper: 82 pp.