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Eddy Okubo lies about his age to join the U.S. Army in Honolulu just weeks before the attack on Pearl Harbor. With the war underway, Americans view him as an enemy, and even skeptical soldiers question the loyalty of Japanese‑American troops. The army assigns Eddy and a small team of Japanese‑American soldiers to a secret mission on a small island off the Mississippi coast. There, they are tasked with training attack dogs to serve as bait, a unique duty that only they can perform.
First publish date: 2005
Genre: Historical Fiction/20th Century Historical Fiction
Authors: Graham Salisbury
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