Furthermore, Takasago Volunteers were classed as military employees, who worked mostly as porters, and as laborers on the construction of airstrips, and took part in guerrilla actions in the jungle. They usually had no rank or formal military status, hence their absence from official war histories, not to mention the lack of veterans 'organizations to bring them together and through which to develop a collective memory of events.
另一方面，高砂義勇隊當時被編為軍屬（軍中雇員），多擔任搬運、協助建造機場，打叢林戰等游擊工作，通常不受軍階，沒有正式軍人身分，因此在正式戰史中付之闕如，更不可能有「戰友會」等相關組織來糾合眾人，形成集體記憶。