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Shigenori Matsumoto 3rd Battalion I Company Sergeant

leading elements.  The others took cover but soon regrouped upon his command to surrender.  The capture was effected without further incident, he said.  He alerted his sergeant, Shigenori Matsumoto, who assisted in marching the prisoners in.  Sergeant Matsumoto remembered this episode as he witnessed Hajiro relieving a German officer of his Luger pistol.  Upon being

1945, Maritime Alps, left to right – Roy Kanno, Roy Gikiu, Sadaichi Kubota, Danny Kuniyoshi, Mike Takemoto, Hideo Takahashi Below:  Kanno (center) with buddies Kiichi Kato and Shigenori Matsumoto, possibly late 1944/early 1945 in Nice On March 15, 1945, the 442nd was relieved from duty in the Maritime Alps and moved to a new staging