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France. On March 12, 1945, his brother Dan T. Onaga of Makawao received Pfc. Onaga’s posthumous Purple Heart Medal from Major Ezra J. Crane, representing Lt. Colonel Murray B. Crandall, Commander of Maui District.  The presentation ceremony was held at the courthouse in Lahaina. For his military service, Private First Class Takeyasu Thomas Onaga was awarded

During the first week of May 1945, Sgt. Koito’s Purple Heart Medal was posthumously presented to his father Hinaichi Koito of 56 Moani Place by Lt. Col. Murray B. Crandall, Maui District Commander, at a ceremony in Wailuku.  The next of kin of four other Maui soldiers also received their loved one’s medal at this ceremony.