Unit Name: | Businessmen's Military Training Corps |
Dates: | January 1942-4 July 1945 |
Country: | United States |
Role: | Patrol |
Size: | 1,500 |
Garrison: | Honolulu, Hawaii |
Commander1: | Col Willart L. Doering[1] |
Commander1 Label: | Commanding Officer |
The Businessmen's Military Training Corps was a white and part-Hawaiian militia unit[2] 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 World War I veterans. Their main activates were patrolling, security, and battle planning. In response to their bias toward whites the Hawaii Defense Volunteers a predominantly Chinese-American militia formed.[3]