Barney Fushimi Hajiro
Légion d’honneur at a ceremony held aboard the French military surveillance ship Prairial, anchored at Pier 9 in Honolulu Harbor. The medal was bestowed by French Consul Fédéric Desagneaux of San Francisco. Afterwards, Hajiro commented: “We fought together – it was teamwork, not individual. We all fought in the battle.” Hajiro wearing his French Legion