soul was celebrated on November 20 at 9:00 a.m. at St. Mary’s Church in Elmira. As Thelma Chang wrote of the memory of 232nd Combat Engineers’ Captain Gilbert Kobatake of that day: Later that day, the engineers were clearing the mines when Byrne saw them, according to Kobatake. Byrne was accompanied by officers…Kobatake advised Byrne
Gilbert Daiji Kobatake Regimental Headquarters 232nd Engineers Captain
September 7, 1946, Larry married Ethel Yoshiko Tamanaha. They raised a family of one son and two daughters. In 1956, Larry was working as a mason for Gilbert Kobatake Construction Company, which was owned by one of his 232nd Combat Engineer Company officers. In 1969, he was working as a mason for Hercules Contracting Company.
