Orville Cresap Shirey
Orville Cresap Shirey 3rd Battalion Headquarters Company Captain
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A Look Back at the 442nd RCT In Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary
Combat Team 1943 created by the 442nd (includes photos of each company at Camp Shelby in 1943) and Americans: The Story of The 442d Combat Team by Orville C. Shirey are available online via Peter Wakamatsu’s website at https://www.the442.org/home.html (accessed 2.8.2018) ◊ A selection of photograph’s from the 442nd 10th Anniversary gathering courtesy of the family
The Vosges Battles as Experienced by the 442nd Regimental Combat Team
Italy, while on occupation duty in 1945 after the war had ended. They had direct access to all the Combat Team’s records in the unit’s files. Captain Orville C. Shirey was the 442nd Headquarters officer in charge of this unit history project. After return to the US, he published this history in the Infantry Journal, a
Harry Fumio Madokoro
of the finest traditions of the Armed Forces of the United States. The drawing (left) is from Americans – The Story of the 442d Combat Team by Orville C. Shirey, published in 1946. It is an illustration by J.W. Guenther of Pfc. Madokoro’s actions on July 17 as described in the Distinguished Service Cross citation above.
Teruo Goma
discharged the same month. Further dates of his service in the European/Mediterranean Theater of War are unknown. In the post-war history of 100th/442nd men compiled by Major Orville C. Shirey during the occupation in Italy, Tec/4 Teruo Goma was listed as a member of the 442nd Medical Detachment who earned the Purple Heart with oak leaf