The Asian American Women Who Fought to Make Their Mark in WWII
They worked as pilots, translators, guerrilla fighters and more.
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They worked as pilots, translators, guerrilla fighters and more.
Asian American women played a critical part in America’s war effort during World War II. Coming from diverse backgrounds including Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Filipino they served in important roles ranging from pilots and translators to factory workers and guerrilla fighters.
Yet they worked on behalf of a country that was far from welcoming. From the time of their arrival in the mid 19th century, people of Asian descent were denied basic citizenship and voting rights for at least a century. For Japanese American women hoping to contribute to the war effort, the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor ratcheted up barriers even further, as entire Japanese communities faced intense discrimination and incarceration in isolated prison camps. “For many, the impetus to serve came as a res
Korean independence fighter s grandson ends archive donation talks with Harvard over professor s comfort women claim
Posted : 2021-02-18 10:53
A comfort woman statue in Seoul / Korea Times file
A grandson of a renowned Korean independence fighter said Thursday that he had sent a letter to Harvard University s president to end any discussions about donating his historical archives due to a professor s article depicting Japan s wartime sexual slavery as voluntary prostitution.
In an email and phone interview with Yonhap News Agency, Philip Ahn Cuddy, the grandson of Ahn Chang-ho who fiercely fought against Japan s 1910-45 colonization, revealed that he wrote the letter to President Lawrence S. Bacow to terminate the talks in direct consequence of J. Mark Ramseyer s inappropriate academic writing.