…tinguished Service Cross, Purple Heart, and the Combat Infantry Badge.  He is buried at Punchbowl Cemetary. In a 2007 interview, Anita Korenaga spoke about her memories of her brother: http://archives.starbulletin.com/2007/11/12/news/story04.html Her handwritten notes about him were preserved with his profile in the Echoes of Silence project.: https://www.100thbattalion.org/wp-content/uploads/Nakamine-Shinyei.pdf…

…ll around them. I went back to make a quick check of their situation and found them sitting around in an orchard eating apples and telling jokes. The whole bunch was laughing as though this was a picnic.” One private pleaded to lead a group assigned to knock out a machine gun nest. A sergeant usually leads but this soldier begged so hard they let him go ahead in the assault He is dead now. “A shell burst right beside him and gave him a terrible wo…

…ky is clouded, bringing rain, Then you will stay beside me. Even when no thunder sounds And no rain falls, if you but ask me, Then I will stay beside you. * Suddenly, it’s over. Quiet settles over the battlefield, and as the weight of the continuous days and nights of combat settles over the men, a deep, coma-like sleep overpowers everything. It is a sleep of weariness that not even hunger can disturb. Even today, twenty years after the formation…

…y of why the 100th formed and how they preformed during WWII. Suddenly, its[sic] over. Quiet settles over the battlefield, and as the weight of the continuous days and nights of combat settles over you, a deep, coma-like sleep overpowers everything. It is a sleep of weariness that not even hunger can disturb. Even today, it is not too difficult to recall those episodes when a mere bundle of hay was something to be prized; at least, it provided som…

…g the critical years of the war outstanding.” Charles R. Hemenway, for may [sic] years chairman of the Univ. of Hawaii Board of Regents and one of the most prominent and respected business and political leaders Hawaii has ever known, a confident and friend to scores of former University students who are now among the key figures in the State of Hawaii, said in February, 1945: “If the Committee had not organized and gone actively to work, it is my…

…ich is only to say that Helen Turner is in that long line of indominatable [sic] women who have marched alongside their men folks, playing their part in history; the man, in this case, being Farrant Turner, the first commander of the 100th Infantry Battalion. Two Sisters: Taking A Chance On Hawaii The year was 1920. “I came over with my sister (Constance) who was going to teach school here. She had been offered a job at a private school, Hanahauol…

…ory project interviewed over 1,200 veterans and can be accessed at: http://www.goforbroke.org. Interviews with 100th veterans reside in this website’s archive, especially articles for the Hawaii Herald newspaper that Ben Tamashiro, a 100th veteran, wrote about fellow comrades whom he had interviewed. As interview transcripts and/or resulting articles are made available, they will be added to this website. The following is a list of the 137 veteran…

…CD can be ordered by contacting the Japanese American Living Legacy http://www.jalivinglegacy.org/main.cfm?stg=home The JALL received permission from the University of Hawaii to use “Ambassadors in Arms: The Story of Hawaii’s 100th Infantry Battalion” by Dr. Thomas Murphy to insert the dates and names of the soldiers who were killed after the appropriate passages in the book. Dr. Murphy was a professor at the University and chairman of the Hawaii…

…He was awarded a Purple Heart, given to U.S. military personnel who are wounded while in war. I was on the mortar platoon. I helped fire an 81 mm mortar. You stand around the gun. One person drops the shell into the barrel and the shell hits the firing pin and the shell flies out. The mortar is not a direct firing weapon. It goes up and over, so the gun crew cannot see the enemy or the explosions. When we went on the hill, we could see Monte Cass…

…ent leaders before and during World War II on behalf of the local Japanese community. As chairman of the Morale Committee established by the FBI chief in Hawaii, he traveled to Washington, D.C. to meet with President Franklin Roosevelt and others about the problems affecting the Japanese Americans in Hawaii and in the armed forces. His efforts, along with the other community leaders he worked with, prevented the mass evacuations of the Japanese po…