Background
Nakamine was born in Hawaii to Japanese immigrant parents.
Nakamine was born in Hawaii to Japanese immigrant parents.
He is a Nisei, which means that he is a second generation Japanese-American. One month before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Nakamine joined the United States Army in November 1941. Nakamine volunteered to be part of the all-Nisei 100th Infantry Battalion.
This army unit was mostly made up of Japanese Americans from Hawaii and the mainland.