haze, he was seen coming toward me, BAR at port, escorting an enemy detail of still heavily armed men. He was instructed to take the prisoners to Captain Byrne. Reporting the situation later, he explained that this patrol was coming up a draw where he was on security. He waited in hiding in the haze
Livorno, Italy, while on occupation duty in 1945 after the war had ended. They had direct access to all the Combat Team’s records in the unit’s files. Captain Orville C. Shirey was the 442nd Headquarters officer in charge of this unit history project. After return to the US, he published this history in the