Martin Minoru Iida
3rd Battalion, 442nd RCT. He was born October 17, 1920, in Kilauea, Kauai, Hawaii. His father Joseph Shuntoro Iida, immigrated from Japan in 1885, and his mother, Rinko Yamamoto, was born in Hanalei, Kauai. Martin had two brothers and one sister. Before the war, Martin was a pitcher with the Kilauea baseball team. On February