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OK, during WWII, the Nisei of the 442nd RCT were sent to Mississippi for combat training before being shipped off to fight in North Africa & Italy in 1943. Under Jim Crow while at Camp Shelby, they were actually ordered to use 'White' as opposed to 'Colored' facilities, & did receive a small amount of racial discrimination from local whites- though not the outright hostility experienced by black soldiers in camps in the South- before being sent to the fight.

WI the Nisei had experienced a greater degree of racism while in training at Camp Shelby, to the extent that black soldiers faced ? WI they were victimised by local law enforcement & bigoted civlians, & subjected to humiliating Jim Crow restrictions, to the extent that they took up arms to defend themselves as occurred with the likes of the 24th Inf Regt at Houston in 1917 ? Would any such racial confrontation involving the 442nd have automatically prevented them from entering combat in ETO, as had occurred for the regular Buffalo Soldiers in WWI when all 4 black regular regts weren't sent over to France on account of the Houston Mutiny ?
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