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What Happened When a Black Soldier Tried to Propose to a Japanese POW Woman—Her Reaction Left Him...

In 1946 Texas, a year after World War II ended, Staff Sergeant James Walker, an African American soldier who had served in segregated U.S. Army units, faced a choice that could end his career—or change his life. Behind the barbed wire of a Japanese POW camp near San Antonio, he had fallen in love with Kimiko Tanaka, a Japanese translator captured in the Philippines. As the U.S. prepared to repatriate its remaining Japanese prisoners, James carried a ring that had survived generations of oppression, determined to offer Kimiko the one freedom neither of them had truly known: the right to choose whom to love. What followed was a battle against laws that forbade interracial marriage, a race against deportation orders, and a test of love stronger than the barbed wire that had once separated them. This powerful true story captures the forbidden union between two people who defied the racial codes of postwar America—and risked everything for a chance at freedom together. For more untold human stories from the Second World War, subscribe to our channel and help preserve history beyond the battlefield.