Indigenous Alaskan recruits prepare for training.
Unknown date.

Inuit Soldiers

An American soldier of Chinese ancestry practices with a Thompson. Unlike Japanese-Americans, Asians of most other nationalities were allowed to serve in integrated units alongside whites, and in particular those with Chinese heritage proved to be willing combatants in the war against Japan (for obvious reasons).

This photo was likely taken in the early years of the war.

Chinese American Infantryman

A FJ checking the papers of U.S. POWs, as FJs look on, St. Lo area, Normandy, France, Summer 1944.
(Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-583-2149-07)