| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1

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Franklin Odo. No Sword to Bury: Japanese Americans in Hawai'i During World War II. (Asian American History and Culture.) Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 2004. Pp. 328. $19.95.
Seldom has a work drawn from military history provided such a rich assortment of provocative reflections on ethnic group identity, racism, and social forces. Franklin Odo tells the story of the Varsity Victory Volunteers (VVV), a group of Nisei (largely college students) from Hawaii joined the Hawaiian Territorial Guard in the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Discharged on racial grounds by mistrustful military and government authorities, these Nisei then volunteered to support the war effort as manual laborers breaking rocks and digging ditches. Their stalwart service so impressed Army commanders that they approved the organization of a volunteer all-Nisei combat team, in which the VVV men enlisted. This team ultimately became part of the famous 442nd Regimental Combat Team.	1
Although the VVV has long been celebrated in Japanese-American communities, notably as a springboard for the creation of Nisei soldiers, and has been commemorated in reunions and stories, Odo diligently fleshes out its largely unknown history, creatively combining archival research with oral history to forge a new and expanded view not just of the VVV but of the formative prewar history of Hawaiian Nisei.	. . .

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