men’s names and, as they put it, ‘he was one haole that could pronounce buddhahead names.’” Capt. Byrne fought shoulder-to-shoulder with his men in Italy and France. Thelma Chang in her book, I Can Never Forget: Men of the 100th/442nd, wrote, “Byrne…was known for his calm nature and thoughtfulness… I Company’s Minoru Suzumoto.
of Hawaii. He was the second of six children born to Kiyuji and Naka (Wakamiya) Wakayama. His siblings were: Tsuruno (died at age 3 of meningitis), Yoshio, Thelma Kameno, Mitsuo (“Pipi”), and Masae Marjorie. His parents arrived from Hiroshima Prefecture. Father Kiyuji arrived on March 19, 1903, on the S.S. Korea. By 1910, Kiyuji
the company was noted to have. During the summer of 1944 in Italy, Barney witnessed a street fight between an Italian civilian and a Nisei soldier. In Thelma Chang’s book “I Can Never Forget” Barney relates the incident saying, “This is in enemy territory now- Italy was a fascist country at the time- so I
