Businessmen's Military Training Corps Explained

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]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hawaii War Records Depository HWRD 1329. Hawaii War Records Depository Photos. University of Hawaii at Manoa Library . 22 November 2017.
  2. Book: Stentiford, Barry . 4 June 2002 . The American Home Guard: The State Militia in the Twentieth Century . Texas A&M University Press . 151 . 9781585441815 .
  3. Book: Greenberg, Martin . 18 November 2005 . Citizens Defending America: From Colonial Times to the Age of Terrorism . registration . Hawaii Air Depot Volunteer Corps. . University of Pittsburgh Press . 7 . 9780822942641 .