Purple Heart Warriors: 2. ‘Buddhaheads’

Fall of the Shah by BBC

Dec 9, 202427:38Society & Culture

Ken goes to a Japanese American internment camp and is shocked at what he sees. Tensions between recruits from Hawaii and the mainlanders, so-called “Buddhaheads” and “Kotonks”, are running high. Then some news – the sol...

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