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Originally Posted by vienna
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Regarding their "illegal" actions: the war was one by men for whom the niceties of legal/illegal were trumped by the desire to serve their obligation to the fullest. Legal niceties are best left to the REMFs...
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You misunderstood me here a bit I was not meaning to condone the men that returned to their units merely that according to military law doing this was considered going AWOL as you we supposed to be sent into the reserve pool and would be very unlikely to return to your original unit most likely a Neise would of course have been sent back to the 442nd do to their being separated which shows just how dedicated they really where that they would leave a hospital as soon as they where able.This is why many men in elite units or very dedicated units like the 442nd would go AWOL back to their original unit they wanted.Most officers looked the other way when this was occurred on both ends.
Further more the 442nd societies own website makes no mention of it having had the highest casualty rate of any regiment in the US Army during WWII.They do mention being the most decorated regiment because this is a fact the army does recognize it as the as the most highly decorated unit in its history thus far.
http://www.the442.org/442ndfacts.html