southern France, his photo seated at a table in the Grand Hotel in Marseilles appeared in the February 26, 1945, issue of Life Magazine. Above: 1st Sgt. Clarence Taba and 1st Lt. James Wheatley in Antibes, France, September 1944 In March 1945, the 442nd returned to Italy for the Po Valley Campaign. On April 4
for San Francisco. From there, they travelled on to Chicago, Illinois, where Kiyo was at the Hines Veterans Hospital for five months. In September 1951 fellow veteran Clarence Taba (I Company) visited them after attending the DAV national convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The two men then drove in the Nakai family Ford on the turnpike