…, WMC is a Scripps-Howard station, and works side by side with the Memphis Commercial-Appeal, one of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, WMC was at that time the third largest earning unit in the entire Scripps-Howard chain and experience gained there might very easily be classified at invaluable. At present, I am assigned to the Ashville Army recruiting station, and am the public relations officer for a district comprised of sections of two state…
Development of the Medal of Honor
…ght. There were no more. At Shelby, he was ticketed as a replacement for D Company of the 100th. But getting there was something else: When the company he was training with was shipped overseas, he was held back because he was too young When a new company was formed, he had to take the machine-gunner training all over again. This time he made it as far as Ft. Mead, Md., but in the final physical, the medics discovered that he had hernia. So back h…
Memoirs and Journals
…Service after he was transferred from the 100th. Rikio Tsuda recalled his combat experience at the Anzio beachhead and Stan Izumigawa, the daily life of an infantryman. Dr. Richard Kainuma, one of the battalion’s surgeons, wrote notes on treating the wounded on the battlefield. Issac Akinaka’s diaries and life history depict his strong religious faith that sustained him during combat and after the war as he tried to provide for his family despite…
Heaven Can Wait
…s body lay on the other side of the river, in enemy held territory. So the company commander asked his men for volunteers to recover the body. It was at this point that I happened to walk into the gathering. As a chaplain, I immediately raised my hand. At that, four others also volunteered. So then I went to the Engineers and asked for a mine sweeper. They assigned a recently arrived kotonk to my group. This was to be his first trip into the field…
Stanley Izumigawa
…umigawa The following is an account of my personal overseas or battlefield experience as a member of the 100th-442nd Infantry in World War II. It is written from the point of view of an infantryman at the squad level, the smallest and lowest level of organization, and is therefore limited in scope. Battlefield action is usually confusing and the individual GI only knows what is happening in his immediate surroundings, and often not even that. With…
Jim Mizuno
…e hill and it took us two days to take it. We worked up a strategy where G Company held the front while E and F Companies went around and came down a hill, and we had them trapped. In another incident not long after the rescue of the ‘Lost Battalion’, “Early one morning, I was directed to go with F Company because they had the job of clearing a strongly held ridge. I told the platoon leader that I don’t like the looks of this place, so I fired art…
‘D’ Days – Sargento of the Palamettos
…e men who were on Cat Island. References are Yasuo Takata’s account of his experience and Graham Salisbury’s book, “The Eyes of the Emperor.” Lt. Ernest Tanaka (B Company) Lt. Rocco Marzano (Headquarters) Herbert Ishii (Headquarters) – cook 24 enlisted men from B Company, Third Platoon Robert Goshima Masao Hatanaka (KIA) Harry Hirasuna Tadao Hodai Masami Iwashita Fred Kanemura John Kihara Tokuichi Koizumi James Komatsu (KIA) Katsumi Maeda Koyei Ma…
The Antitank Company, 442 RCT
…e overall commander in Italy felt that he had the wherewithal to drive the Germans completely out of the country and perhaps even continue on into Austria. But the Americans won the argument for staying with the original plans which called for striking at the “underbelly” of Europe. And so the three American divisions (3rd, 36th and 45th) were pulled out of Italy to form the core of the invasion force, the withdrawal taking the steam out of Alexan…
One Puka Puka
…units when Pearl Harbor was attacked, then went through some of the worst combat in Italy nine months before the 442nd arrived, and never got recognized, or even welcomed home after the war.” Jones shakes his head. “I was stunned. I found it incredible,” he says. So the idea was to tell the story of the 100th, “to get them the recognition they deserved but never got.” It’s a story of valor best told by the veterans themselves, through their own m…
Jerry Sakoda
…, I would like to tell you about a poignant, vingnette [sic] of front line experience I had on the Italian front. On this cold and blustery afternoon of November 3, 1943, the 100th Bn. was poised on the banks of the Volturno River in southern Italy. We had received division orders to launch a midnight attack that night. At dusk, I noticed my friend Sgt Shukichi Sato of Lawai, Kauai coming towards our sector. He was in Fox Co. I knew he had somethi…