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Businessmen’s Military Training Corps
Active January 1942-4 July 1945
Country United States
Role Patrol
Size 1,500
Garrison/HQ Honolulu, Hawaii

The Businessmen’s Military Training Corps was a white and part-Hawaiian militia unit 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 Chinese-American militia formed.

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