Burma Rifles Author:Frank Bonham Jerry Harada was smart and curious - not a very safe thing for a young American of Japanese descent to be, in the days just after Pearl Harbor. — But then the army sent out a call for Japanese-speaking soldiers, and Jerry saw his chance. He applied for the rugged training course, volunteered for Intelligence work, and wound up fighting with a ti... more »ght little band of Americans in the jungles of Burma, where the enemy reserved a special, ugly fate for any Nisei who fell into their hands.« less