Private Koo Ito, Nisei hero who last 4th of July lost his right leg when hit by a burst of German shrapnel in Italy, has returned to an Army hospital in Battle Creek, Mich., after a month’s convalescent leave in Long Beach.
This disabled veteran, who attended Compton Junior College near Los Angeles, and played baseball on the school team, was married just before his induction in 1943 to Elaine Ikoma, a Long Beach Sansei who studied nursing at the University of California. The marriage was solemnized at the Jerome Relocation Center.