Businessmen’s Military Training Corps
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The Businessmen’s Military Training Corps was a white and part-Hawaiian militia unit to prevent collaboration of Japanese-Americans as a result of a Japanese invasion of Hawaii
. The militia was made up of 17 companies, two thirds of which were Wold War I veterans. Their main activates were patrolling, security, and battle planning. In response to their bias toward whites the Hawaii Defense Volunteers
a Chinese-American militia formed.
Hawaii
Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...
. The militia was made up of 17 companies, two thirds of which were Wold War I veterans. Their main activates were patrolling, security, and battle planning. In response to their bias toward whites the Hawaii Defense Volunteers
Hawaii Defense Volunteers
The Hawaii Defense Volunteers was a Chinese-American militia in Hawaii and one of three in Honolulu during the World War II, it also had Filipinos, Hawaiians, Puerto Ricans, Koreans, and Whites....
a Chinese-American militia formed.