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Senpai Gumi Story – 100th to MIS

S. Nishimura, Richard S. Oguro, Ryoichi Okada, Richard Omori,  Robert T. Otake,  Masao Rokui, Alan Y. Shimizu, Manabu Soranaka, Masami Tahira, Theodore Takano,  “Slim” Takiue, Takuya Terada, Thomas K. Tsubota, Sadao Toyama,  Fusao Uchiyama, Tsutomu Wakimoto,  Ernest T. Watanabe,  Tatao Yamada, Tom T. Yamada,  Kazuo Yamane, Ben I. Yamamoto, Hirotoshi Yamamoto,  Shoichi  E. Yamamoto,

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Henry “Hank” Chiyei Oyasato

1922, in Koloa, Kauai, Territory of Hawaii.  He was one of four sons and one daughter of Chimei and Ushie (Yakabi) Oyasato.  His siblings were:  George Chisei, Thomas Tomohiro, John Chiyoshi, and sister Aiko.  Father Chinei arrived in 1903 from Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, and worked as a salesman in a retail store.  Mother Ushie

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The Nisei Soldiers of World War II

1941 and the capture of submarine commander Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki by Sgt. David Akui and two Nisei soldiers from Company G, 298th Infantry.  One of them was Thomas Kiyoshi Tsubota, later to become a member of the famed 100th Battalion, who trained at the MIS Language School at Camp Savage and then fought with

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Terry Takashi Ogawa

100 ships from Hampton Roads for the Theater of War, arriving at Naples, Italy, on May 28.  The 232nd Combat Engineers sailed on the Liberty Ship S.S. Thomas Cresap along with the 442nd’s 206th Army Ground Forces Band.  They were assigned to bunks in Hold No. 2.  During the weeks at sea, the 206th

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