5 Hunt Soldiers Killed In Italy

Hunt , May 2 — 5 Japanese-American soldiers were killed and 22 were wounded in the Fifth Army’s push to drive the Germans out of northern Italy, according to War Department telegrams received this week by the soldiers’ families here. All were members of the famed 442nd Regiment.

Those killed were:

T/ 4 Haruo Ishida, son of Mrs. Asano Ishida, hunt, killed in action on April 6th. Inducted in September 1941, he was wounded in France during the rescue of the Lost Battalion near Biffontaine, France.

S/Sgt. William I. Imamoto, younger brother of Mrs. Mae Fukui, Hunt, was reported killed on April 8. The 26 year old sergeant was formerly a resident of Port Orchard, Wash.

Pvt. Roy Naemura, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. S. Naemura, Hunt, was killed April 5. Pvt. Naemura was a resident of Gresham and was attending Gresham high school at the time of evacuation.

Pfc. Manzo Takahashi, whose brother, Jimmie, resides here was reported killed in action on April 10. He was previously wounded in October, 1944, and had been awarded the Purple Heart. He was a ‘38 graduate of Lewis and Clark high school, Spokane.

Pvt. Shoichi Takehara, 21, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Yutaro Takehara, Hunt, was killed in action on April 5. Pvt. Takehara was a resident of Fife, Wash., before evacuation and resided in Japan for five years until 1940.