The story of the Takasago Volunteers that has been pieced together from the accounts of survivors and other historical documents is that the Governor-General's Office recruited eight separate corps of Taiwan aborigines, after the attack on Pearl Harbor and during the intensification of the conflict in the Pacific, and they were sent to fight between March 1942 and 1945.
根據這些倖存者的口述及其他相關文獻大致拼湊出的「高砂義勇隊」圖像是：二次大戰末期，台灣總督府在珍珠港事件爆發、太平洋戰火愈趨熾烈時，總共徵調八回台灣原住民參戰。出征時間從一九四二年三月到一九四五年。