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Jimmy Y. Taketa 3rd Battalion K Company Private Jimmie Yutaka Taketa Jimmie Yutaka Taketa

442 E           Pvt. Seike, Toll 442 E           Pvt. Tanamachi, Saburo 442 F           S/Sgt. Kokame, Nobuo 442 F           T/St. Shimizu, Jimmy Toshio 442 I           Sgt. Fukeda, Akira Wallace 442 I           Sgt. Matsumoto, Goro 442 I         

in Italy as a litter bearer with the 3rd Battalion, F Company. He successfully evacuated three patients. Several days later, while evacuating a wounded comrade — Pvt Jimmy Y. Taketa — Akira was caught by an artillery tree burst during an extremely heavy enemy artillery barrage. He was killed instantly on July 16, 1944, near Luciana,