This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the uk.
Dramas immersive storytelling from the BBC World Service.
Available now.
Purple Heart warriors by Iris Yamashita.
An original six part drama series inspired by real events.
Here's Will Sharp.
You might know him as Ethan from the second season of the White Lotus or as Shun from the TV series he created called Flowers.
He's also leading the cast of Purple Heart warriors right here.
Italy, 1944.
Allied troops have landed at Naples and are fighting their way north, attacking entrenched German machine gun positions in the fields of Tuscany.
These troops would become the US's most decorated military unit.
The 100th Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team.
A segregated fighting unit comprised of Japanese Americans.
The Purple.
I'm Ken Morioka from Los Angeles and I had just turned Grandpa Allen's Japanese Mochi bakery into Go nuts Donuts.
Not sure how it happened or why, but I suddenly found myself in the 1940s trapped in my grandpa's 18 year old body.
Fighting in the war.
Ken finds himself in combat training with second generation Japanese Americans known as Nisei who have volunteered from the incarceration camps on the mainland.
They are joined by pidgin accented Japanese Americans from the Hawaiian islands who had been placed under martial law.
Hey, Aloha bugbates.