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The 99th Infantry Battalion (separate) was a battalion of Norwegian-speaking soldiers in the US Army. Created in July of 1942 at Camp Ripley, Minnesota, the battalion originally consisted of 1,001 soldiers.〔("99th Infantry Battalion (Separate)." ) 99th Infantry Battalion (Sep) - World War 2 Educational Foundation, 2013. Web.〕 The battalion was attached to the Second United States Army; however, it was labeled "Separate" because it was not attached to a specific regiment. ==Background== After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States Department of War considered how the military could use foreigners and bilingual, first-generation immigrants from German-occupied areas to assist the war effort. The initial assessment concluded that it would be "un-American" to train foreign troops on US soil, prompting the Norwegian government to refuse a request to recruit Norwegians in the United States for military training in Canada. After a time, however, the Department of War decided to set up special units of US citizens from certain ethnic groups for operations in countries occupied by the Axis powers. The following five battalions, established in 1942, were organized based on ethnic groups: * 1st Filipino Infantry Battalion: Filipino (the nucleus of later 1st and 2nd Filipino infantry regiments) * 99th Infantry Battalion (separate): Norwegian * 100th Infantry Battalion (separate): Japanese * 101st Infantry Battalion (separate): Austrian (dissolved in 1943 before active service) * 122nd Infantry Battalion (separate): Greek A Polish unit was also proposed but never created.〔http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/pas/66.2/szymczak.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「99th Infantry Battalion (United States)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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