学がく徒と兵へい

noun

student soldier (in WWII)

Historical term for university or higher-school students conscripted as soldiers during World War II, especially under the 学徒出陣 mobilization.

See also: 学徒出陣

• 学がく徒と兵へいとして戦せん場じょうに送おくられた若わか者ものたちの手しゅ記きが残のこされている。

  Memoirs remain of young people who were sent to the battlefield as student soldiers.