website: https://ddr.densho.org/interviews/ddr-densho-1000-40-1/. Also on the Densho website is a video interview he did with fellow 442nd veteran Bill Thompson and Louise Kashino, wife of I Company veteran Shiro Kashino. Sadaichi was instrumental in the years-long effort to overturn the wrongful wartime court-martial of Kashino. In 2003, the book, And Then There Were Eight, The Men
behind the hill, while others were killed by Allied fire. Tendola was finally freed. As S/Sgt. George Morihiro of I Company later wrote, … Kash [Platoon Sergeant Shiro Kashino] got hit again for the 6th time and ended up in a hospital. Meanwhile, Beanie…took over for Kash. Then Beanie was reported missing. Kash, upon hearing
man said, ‘Captain Byrne.’” That night Capt. Kobatake was taken in an ambulance from the aid station to the hospital. In the ambulance with him was S/Sgt. Shiro Kashino from I Company, who had been wounded in his leg about noon. When Kobatake told Kashino about his Captain’s death, Kashino replied, “I left the aid
high ground. Artillery fire was heavy and casualties on both sides were very high. By the end of the day, I Company had heavy losses and casualties. Shiro Kashino of I Company was assigned by the 3rd Battalion Commander to be the leader of a group to carry rations to those engaged in direct combat
