The 442nd Infantry Regiment is the most decorated unit for its size in U.S. military history. Composed almost entirely of second-generation American soldiers of Nisei ancestry who fought in World War II, the unit earned more than 18,000 awards in fewer than two years, + including 21 Medals of Honor; 9,486 Purple Hearts; and more than 4,000 Bronze Star Medals.

The unit, of course, fought abroad amidst the mass internment of more than 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry at home, in what have been recoined as American concentration camps. +