October 13. Effective on arrival in the area the Combat Team was attached to VI Corps for operations and further attached to the 36th Division, Major General John E. Dahlquist commanding. 14 Oct 1944 – Preparing for the Battle Beginning at 1400 October 14, the 442nd Infantry began moving into position for an attack
boots that produced trench feet; digging dugouts no matter how tired we were in order to survive devastating nightly barrages and tree bursts…a foolhardy general [Major General John E. Dahlquist] who came right up to our lines, goading us to get up and charge…three days of slow, tedious tree-to-tree fighting with no sleep; forcing
and few days following, records show that the following seventeen I Company men died between October 21st and November 5th: Nobuo Amakawa, Joseph L. Byrne, Akira Fukuda, John Harano, Ben Inakazu, Kosaku Isobe, Goro Matsumoto, Isamu Minatodani, Susumu Okura, Takeyasu Onaga, Choyei Oshiro, Sam Oshiro, Shigeo Tabuchi, Shigeo Taketa, Larry Tanimoto, Harry Yamasaki, and