Hattiesburg American

“Thoroughly Mad” at Japs, Pvt. Itagaki Joined Army

A thirty-six-year-old father with a wife and a 15-year-old son volunteered for combat duty with the Japanese Americans in training at Camp Shelby because he saw the Japs shoot down his friends at Schofield Barracks on that memorable Sunday in 1941. Pvt. Joseph R. Itagaki was manager of the Kemoo coffee shop and restaurant which he opened fifteen years ago just outside the main gates of Schofield Barracks. Itagaki was leaving for an early round of golf on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. He saw the planes dive towards Schofield Barracks, which are outside Honolulu. Like so many others that day he thought at first it was our planes on maneuvers. Then the crack of machine-guns startled him as the planes straightened out of their...

100th Record Keepers

125 Linguists Join 442 For Basic Training

One hundred and twenty-five Japanese American graduates of the Military Intelligence Language School at Camp Savage, Minn. have arrived at Camp Shelby to undergo a stiff eight-week training cycle with the Japanese American Combat Team. Undaunted by the hot weather of Mississippi after a spring and early summer in Minnesota, the soldiers, all technicians, fifth grade, were anxious to plunge into field training and get their hands on rifles and machine guns. During the school course which they have just completed they had no contact with weapons, only visual instructions. Said T/ 5 Juichi “Nick” Nishii: “We’re aching for a chance to handle guns after those months of class studies.” Basic Training Their basic training period here as a unit will be under the supervision...

16 Combat Team Members Entertain At Poplarville

Sixteen members of the Japanese-American combat team traveled to Poplarville Thursday night and put on several feature numbers for the Poplarville Civic Organization celebration held in the athletic stadium of Pearl River Junior college. The soldiers made the trip in a college bus driven by Sgt. Lemore E. Scott DENL of the college ROTC. The invitation to attend the celebration was extended by Lt. Col. John S. Somers, commandant of the ROTC unit at the college. The program was presented under the auspices of Pearl River Junior college, Poplarville Rotary Club and the Poplarville American Legion Post. The Japanese-Americans were invited so that the townspeople might become better acquainted with the Nisei soldiers. The visitors offered their own program of entertainment as part of the...

39 Combat Team Non-Comms Graduate

Thirty-nine non-commissioned officers of the Japanese American combat team were graduated this morning from a four weeks’ course of instruction designed to further their competence as leaders. Certificates of their proficiency were handed the men by Reg. Adjutant Capt. Harry B. Farr at exercises held before regimental headquarters at 8:15 o’clock. Only two who started this four weeks’ course failed to finish. During the period of schooling the men were drilled primarily on leadership, following up theory on methods of instruction with actual experience. The non-commissioned officers helped in training of new recruits. Major Emmett L. O’Connor conducted the school with Lts. Burt Nishimura, Russell Cetlin and M. B. Paddock as instructors. The school graduates are: William Oba, Frank Sakamoto, Harry Takagi, Albert Koby, Toyo...

3rd Bn Hq Soldiers Present A “Hit-and-Miss Parade of 1943”

442nd Anti-Tank Company Wins “America Sings” Contest

442nd Band Toots Into Shape

With many a wheeze, experimental toots and cracked lips, the regimental band of the Japanese American Combat Team is slowly taking shape at Camp Shelby. Sgt. Jun Yamamoto, who is organizing the band, is hopeful however, and even loquacious about the talent he already has recruited. “Most of the players came from Hawaii,” he said, “and there’s something about Hawaii that makes plenty of men natural-born musicians. A few of them had their own bands in the islands.” Sgt. Harry Hamada, who has his own Hawaiian orchestra in the Combat Team, will play the saxophone and string bass in the new unit. Yamamoto expects to have a 40-piece band and a 13-piece orchestra to swing it on social occasions. Pvt. Herbert Odagawa, from the Field...

442nd Baseball Team Defeats 148th Engineers

442nd Baseball Team Defeats 896th Ordinance

442nd Baseball Team Defeats Ingalls Shipyard

442nd Baseball Team In A Rematch With Meridian

442nd Baseball Team Is Undefeated

The 442nd Inf. Baseball team is justified in proudly and loyally announcing it is as yet still undefeated. The team has played five games and has amassed a total of 74 runs as compared to the four allowed opponents. Hattiesburg American 1943 May 24 Page 3 442nd Marriages Announced Content: Sgt. Pete Watanabe of Co. D, 442nd Inf. and Miss Mary Hirose of Los Angeles were married by Chaplain Eugene West in his office at Camp Shelby on May 14. Cpl. Satoshi Kato Co. E, 442nd Inf. and Miss Mutsu Oikawa of Washington state were married at the USO Cottage May 23. Chaplain Thomas R. Brown of the Air Corps officiated while Mrs. James Masuda acted as a matron of honor and Sgt. Ben Kumagai...

442nd Baseball Team News

442nd Baseball Team To Play In Meridian, MS

442nd Baseball Team Yields to 474th Quartermasters

442nd Beats Semi-Pros

442nd Books Three Tough Games This Week

In the first of three tough games this week, the Japanese American Combat Team baseball team will play the 100th Infantry Bn. nine Tuesday on field in No. 7. On Thursday afternoon, the Combat Team will oppose the 631st Ordnance squad for the non-divisional baseball championship of Camp Shelby. The following Sunday will see the Japanese Americans playing the Meridian City team in Meridian in a return match. Strengthened by the return of left-handed pitcher Higuchi to the mound, the Combat Team will face the 100th Infantry, also composed of Japanese American soldiers, and a game that has long been argued by rabid baseball followers of both teams. The long- standing argument as to which outfit has the better baseball team should be settled by...

442nd Boxing Card Tonight

Forty-two rounds of fast boxing are scheduled for the first 442nd Combat Team boxing exhibition at 8’clock tonight in the third battalion area. Two “main events” are scheduled and two semi-wind ups. All bouts will be for two rounds two minutes a round. Intermission music will be furnished by Hamada’s All-Hawaiian Serenaders. The program, subject to change follows: Main Events Richard Koto Serv. Btry. vs. Shangy Sugano, Co. M. 160 lbs Wallace Fukeda, Co. I vs. Robert Nori, FA, 135 lbs. Semi-Windups Tsuneshi Maruo, Btry C vs. Roy Nakamie, Co. L, 118 lbs. Anki Hoshijo, Hq. 3Bn vs. Tommy Umeda, Co. I, 126 lbs. Special Events Raymond Murata, Co. L vs. James Hayashi, Co. I, 118 lbs. Paul Tokusato, Co. F vs. Wallace Miyamoto, Hq....

442nd Boxing Team Featured in National Sports Magazine

442nd Champion Diver

442nd Champion Swimmer

Pvt. Takashi Hirose, Co. M, 442nd Inf., is one of the champion swimmers in the Combat Team. He has made four trips to the mainland to compete in various swimming meets. His swimming career began at the age of four; he entered competitive swimming at nine, and won his first championship when he was fourteen. In 1941 he became national 100 meter champ at a meet at St Louis, Mo. He has been a member of the All American swimming team, the post-Olympic team, and has participated in the Pan American games in South America. In 1940 he was offered a scholarship at the University of Ohio. Unable to accept it at that time, he postponed it until the next year, but at that time...

442nd Combat Team Reviewed

The first formal review of the 442nd Combat Team took place Friday afternoon at Camp Shelby. Col. C. W. Pence, team commander, was the reviewing officer. Lt. Col. V. R. Miller, executive officer, acted as commander of the troops during the review. Col. Kai Rasmussen, commandant of Military Intelligence Language School at Camp Savage, Minn., was an honored guest. Col. H. McE. Pendleton, commander of Special Troops, Third Army, and his staff were also special guests. The 442nds new band led by Sgt. Jun Yamamoto, showed up to great advantage, and its appearance marked it as one of the excellent bands on the post. Included in the 442nd’s team, passing in review, were the 522nd Field Artillery, 232nd Engineers, 442nd Infantry, Medical Detachment, Special Troops...

442nd Conducts Chapel Services

442nd Enlisted Men To Entertain Visiting Girls

One hundred girls from Jerome relocation center at Denson, Ark., will be guests of the enlisted men of the 442nd (Japanese-American) Combat Team Saturday evening at the regimental dance at Service Club 5 at Camp Shelby. The girls will arrive at Camp Shelby and specially chartered buses, and will go directly to the civilian war housing project, where they will have supper, and prepare for the dance. Dancing will continue from 8:00 until midnight. During the intermissions Harry Hamada and the Shelby Serenaders, and Charles Kanaka, and the Hawaiian Combateers will play Hawaiian numbers and popular selections. On Sunday morning the girls and their hosts will attend special open air Chapel services in front of the service club, with Chaplain Lt. Thomas E. West, junior...

442nd Group Visits New Orleans

442nd Holds Memorial Service

442nd Holds Shelby Non-Division Baseball Title

The 442nd Infantry team won the non-divisional championship Wednesday by defeating the 631st Tank Destroyers 2 to 1 on the diamond at 51st street and Highway 24. It was one of those storybook endings when two men out the ladder hit a home run into deep center field. The hero was Savage Tanaka, first baseman. He has been a light header all season but his home run was one of the cleanest, prettiest balls you’d ever see. In the last half of the 7th with Uto flying to 2nd and Yogi grounding out and with fans settling down expecting an extra inning Tanaka stepped up and drove the ball over the centerfielder’s head. The 442nds only other run came in the first inning by means...

442nd Judo Exhibit

Pvt. James Kamo, Service Co., 442nd Inf. Is working up a judo exhibit, which will be given at the Fieldhouse. The date will be announced. Pvt. Kamo defines judo as a “streamlined version of Ju-jitsu.” He has been doing judo for about 8 years and is an expert. Before war broke out, Pvt. Kamo was attending the University of Hawaii taking mathematics and sciences. He taught judo for two years in the university physical education classes. War came before Pvt. Kamo could graduate as he left school to teach judo to the Honolulu police and to army and navy flyers until he was accepted into the 100 per cent volunteer 442nd combat team. Pvt. Kamo says "the boys in the exhibit are training hard for...

442nd Judo Exhibition

442nd Judo Team Exhibition At Pearl River Junior College

442nd Letters As A Work of Art

442nd Loses To Meridian

Unable to solve the slants of pitcher Beddingfield, the 442nd Inf. baseball team lost its return match with the Meridian Moss Specials 5 to one Sunday at Meridian. Uchigaki started on the mound for the Combat Team but was replaced by Higuchi after the second inning when Meridian scored two runs on two doubles and a single. Higuichi held the opposing hitters scoreless until the sixth inning when a walk and four singles brought three more runs across the plate. The 442nd made its only run in the first inning when leadoff batter Morita was safe on an error, Kashiwaeda bunted him to second, and left fielder Yoshimura came through with a single to score Morita. The Meridian team earned 14 hits while the 442nd...

442nd Lt Ohrenstein Needs An Apartment

442nd Marriage

442nd Marriage

442nd Men Enjoy A Trip To Bogalusa

Twenty-three members of the Japanese-American Combat Team returning to Camp Shelby Sunday evening, acclaimed their weak-end in Bogalusa as guests of the YWCA a most pleasant one. Arriving early Saturday evening, the enlisted men and officers were welcomed with a dinner at the YWCA after which the guests and their hostesses gathered in informal groups for swimming, singing and dancing. A mid-night show topped the evening’s entertainment. Sunday morning the men attended churches of Bogalusa with their hostesses. Following dinner in the homes of the young woman, the men were invited to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Young for an afternoon of swimming in the attractive outdoor pool. A trip to the nearby Recreation Center concluded the visit. Lt. Richard K. Betsui, Lt. George...

442nd Officers Dance Friday

442nd Officers Wives Form Bridge Club

442nd Pastry Chef

Flaky apple pies, tasty cinnamon rolls, fluffy hot cross buns, browned whole wheat rolls — it’s a simple matter for Pvt. Takeme Kajikawa of Service Company of the Japanese-American Combat Team to toss the ingredients together to make tempting pastries. Chief baker for the Lincoln Market in Honolulu prior to volunteering for service, Pvt. Kajikawa has a keen knack for turning out pastries that soldiers like. Where the men once complained of not having enough to eat, now they surprisingly gripe that they eat too much since they hate to stop eating. Pvt. Ray Kusumi calls it “just like home cooking.” Baker Kajikawa is right “on the ball” with flour, yeast, spices, and shortening. Pvt. Earl Kubo says he’s waiting for Easter when it’s the...

442nd Ping Pong Winners

442nd Presentation To Rotary Club of Picayune, MS

442nd Soldiers Are Avid Readers

The reading habits of Japanese American troops in combat-team training at Camp Shelby indicate a fondness for books on American history and biography, technical subjects and social sciences, according to Miss Mattie Swearingen, librarian at the Service Club No. 3, which is well patronized by the Japanese Americans. Many books on Japan are available at the library but so far not a single one has been taken out by the soldiers of Japanese ancestry who come from Hawaii and Relocation Centers on the mainland. Berlin Diary and Guadalcanal Diary are popular and biographies of General MacArthur and Abraham Lincoln are constantly sought, Miss Swearingen says. In the technical field, books on preliminary flight training, medical aid and care and maintenance of motors are avidly read....

442nd Soldiers Celebrate “I Am an American Day”

Japanese-American troops of the 442nd Combat Team celebrated “I Am an American Day” Sunday in their own regimental area with a special program extolling the advantages of citizenship and acknowledging its responsibilities. By voluntarily enlisting for service in the combat team, these soldiers already have taken the first step to demonstrate their patriotism, but as citizens of Japanese ancestry they realize they are under close public scrutiny. In the words of their commanding officer, Colonel Charles W. Pence, each one “is a symbol of the loyalty of the Japanese-American population both on the mainland and in Hawaii.” The program, arranged by the two chaplains, included music and speeches by the representatives of officers and enlisted men of the organization. Company guidons were assembled around the...

442nd Soldiers Entertain Local Girls And Their Chaperones

Open house at Service Club 5 Sunday was a huge success and immensely enjoyed by all soldiers and their guests who came from Gulfport, Bay St Louis, and Hattiesburg. Dancing, which began at 2:30 and lasted until 5:00, was the main attraction for the afternoon. Pvt. Harry Hamada and his Shelby Hawaiians gave a short intermission program, singing and dancing Hawaiian songs and dances while accompanying themselves on their guitars, ukuleles, and uliuli (gourd). Two soldiers from the 442nd Combat Team were carried away by the Hawaiian music at one point and got up and did an impromptu but effective hula. Everyone enjoyed the program keenly, especially the girls, who at 5:00 were taken to the various mess halls to enjoy the evening meal with...

442nd Soldiers Have Visitors

Mrs. J. T. Barrett, and Chaplain Barrett are expecting Mrs. Barrett’s sister of Jackson, Tenn., at the beginning of the week. The Barrett’s are located at the Woman’s College. Mrs. Barrett was on the Post to attend the 442nd Combat Team review which was followed by a dance at the Officers Club. They look more like school girls, one with red hair-ribbon bow and socks to match her white dress with red trimmings, and the other with brown and white striped frock with white blouse; both enjoying ice cream cones. However, they were army wives: Mrs. Fred Matsumoto and Mrs. Frank Segawa, of Los Angeles. Joining them was another army wife, Mrs. Goro Tsuchita, Chicago. Their husbands are all with Co. M, 442nd Inf. The...

442nd Soldiers Invited to Bogalusa, LA

Twenty-five enlisted men of the 442nd Combat Team will spend the week-end of June 5-6 at Bogalusa, La., as guests in the homes of the townspeople. The trip is being arranged by the Young Women's Professional Club of Bogalusa, under the direction of the YWCA, and special service officers of Camp Shelby and the Japanese American unit. The men will make the 60 mile trip by bus, arriving at 4 o’clock Saturday afternoon in Bogalusa; they will be met by their hostesses and taken directly to the homes in which they will spend the week-end. The program and the reception Saturday night will include musical entertainment by the Hawaiian Combateers and the Shelby Serenaders, whose members are among the invited guests. The men will attend...

442nd Soldiers Invited to Bogalusa, LA.

442nd Soldiers Present “You Can't Take It With You”

442nd Soldiers Present Hawaiian Musical Skit

Co. L, 3rd Bn., 442nd Inf. announces a Hawaiian musical skit at 7:00 tonight at the 3rd Bn. amphitheater. Men in this Bn. and their guests are invited. The amphitheatre, directly behind Co. L area, is picturesquely situated among Mississippi's famous pine trees. This skit, “You Can't Take It With You,” is appropriately named. s it will be Hawaiian memories done in music. Co. L gives full credit for the skit to Lt. Jerome Smith, who in turn absolutely refuses any credit, saying, “I didn't do a thing! These men are the ones who did all the work!” Under 1st Sgt. Herbert L. Fujita and S/Sgt. Tom Sagimori Co. L has been “on the ball.” Not only have these men worked on a musical skit,...

442nd Soldiers Send Father’s Day Greeting

Fifty Nisei soldiers from Hawaii serving in the Japanese American Combat Team here cabled Father’s Day greetings to their dads back in the islands in time for Sunday morning delivery. The messages were youthful and sincere, some humorous. Limited to twenty-five words, one soldier cabled: “I hope this Father’s Day message will warm you up so you will send me some money.” For the most part the messages were tinged with love and longing to be back with their fathers. “I’m getting along fine and Aloha to the greatest pal in the world,” typified the overseas greetings. One soldier wired: “Take it easy until I get back; And we can have good times as in days gone by.” The soldier spent an average of $3...

442nd Soldiers To Denver for Brother’s Funeral

442nd Visitor

442nd Visitors

442nd Visitors

442nd VVV Fund Drive for Infantile Paralysis

A drive for funds to aid the fight against poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) in the Hawaiian Islands, is being conducted in the Japanese American Combat Team here, many of whose members came from Hawaii. The poliomyelitis drive is sponsored by Varsity Victory Volunteers, a unit of Japanese Americans which was widely praised for its patriotic services in Hawaii. The VVV’s formerly were members of the Hawaiian Territorial Guards. When opportunity came for them to join the combat team they volunteered as a unit and disbanded as VVV’s. Now they're active again, without formal organization and fundraising for a worthy cause. Lt. Ralph Yempuku and Chaplain Lt. Thomas E. West, acting as general chairman, have organized enlisted men committees in the various battalions and special units of...

442nd Wives Host Wedding Shower

442nd's Paralysis Fund Exceeds $7000

522nd Party At The USO

90 Boys In Combat Team Once Worked For Pvt. Oka

He's only a private in the Japanese American combat team but 90 soldiers formerly employed by the Hawaii Pineapple Company still think of Sam Oka as “the boss.” In 13 years of service with the pineapple company Oka rose to the position of foreman of the cased goods storage department. During the pack season he had about 300 men and women working under him and Sam Oka was content to spend the rest of his working days as a big-time foreman. Then came Pearl Harbor. “I was swimming that Sunday morning at Kalihi Basin, only about 3 miles from Pearl Harbor,” Oka relates. “I looked up and saw planes coming over. I thought it was maneuvers until shells and bombs began to explode in the...

A Birthday Party For Pvt. Tokuo Kaneshige

And A Fun Time Was Had By All!!!

Birthday Cakes On Rifle Range

Birthday Parties For Pvts. Charles Saiki and Yuichi Tamura

June 3, 1943 passed uneventfully for Pvt. Charles Saiki of the Japanese American Combat Team. It was his birthday and he wasn’t up to par for he thought his mother and girlfriend Agnes Kurisu had forgotten him. But it wasn’t so. Way out there in Hawaii, the two made plans to send Pvt. Saiki a huge birthday cake. But letters have a way of getting lost, and Regimental Chaplain John T. Barrett wasn’t notified of the birthday until July. And so late yet appropriate a gaily-decorated cake was presented to Pvt. Saiki and duly enjoyed by his friends of the Service Company. With the cooperation of the Hattiesburg USO, Chaplain John T. Barrett presented Pvt. Yuichi Tamura with a birthday cake on his twenty-fourth birthday,...

Birthday Parties for Pvts. Masanobu Hayashi And Tauneo Takemoto

Birthday Parties for Pvts. Tokuo Kaneshige and Benjamin Y. Tamashiro

Birthday Party for 442nd Soldiers

Birthday Party For Pvt. Richard Ajihu

Birthday Party for Pvt. Suneo Yamaguchi

Pvt. Suneo Yamaguchi celebrated his birthday May 7, with a cake sent to him by his parents in Hilo, Hawaii. His family appealed to the USO in Hilo to arrange for a birthday cake to be given him on Friday. The cake, a beautifully decorated one with “Happy Birthday from Home” inscribed on it, was presented to Pvt. Yamaguchi by his company commander, Lieut. Christopher R. Keegan, in behalf of the Yamaguchi family, as the dessert course for the Friday evening meal. Pvt. Yamaguchi stated that he was certainly pleasantly surprised, saying, “When they called my name, I went on eating and didn't pay any attention.” “You thought it was for a detail.” chimed in one of his well-wishers. Pvt. Yamaguchi laughed and continued, “Yes,...

Bogalusans Entertained Soldiers From Hawaii

If the girls of Bogalusa, La. are wearing gardenias over one year, it is an adoption of a Polynesian custom introduced by members of the 442nd (Japanese-American) combat team, when they were guests there last week-end of the Young Woman's Professional Club. The 25 enlisted men who made the trip from Camp Shelby to Bogalusa by bus found their hostesses anxious to learn Hawaiian customs. At a banquet held at the YWCA Saturday evening Lt. Bert N. Nishimura, who was in charge of the visiting group, related folklore tales of the islands, telling of the Polynesian custom of wearing flowers to denote marriageability — a blossom over the left ear signifying engagement, and over the right ear, that the girl is unattached and receptive to...

Boxers From Hawaii Aim For Shelby Titles

Enthusiastic ring followers in the Japanese-American Combat Team don't believe in pulling their punches. They are confidently predicting that their newly-formed boxing team will win the championship of Camp Shelby. The team, which was organized under the direction of Lt. Roger (Slugger) Smith, a former tackle at the University of Hawaii, started training this week. The team has a wealth of material in every weight division up to and including middle weight, and the fighters are working hard to live up to their backers’ prediction. Acting as co-coaches of the boxers are Pvt. Ken Nobori, 1940 Hawaiian A.A.U. middle. weight champion who was on the Hawaiian team that swept the national A.A.U. tournament at Boston three years ago, and Pvt. Richard Chinen, colorful bantam who...

Bugs, Snakes, Music, And It’s Too Hot

Cakes For 442nd C. T. Members

Camp Shelby Baseball

The 442nd Inf. Took a firm hold on second place in the Eastern League of the Camp Shelby Non-Divisional Baseball League by trouncing the 522nd F. A. 9-3 yesterday afternoon. The Japanese-American 9 pounded out five runs in a merry-go-round first inning to build up a substantial lead that was never challenged. With one-out first baseman Tanaka got on when hit by a pitched ball. Mori lifted a high fly which the left fielder dropped. Beppu came through to fill the bases. Then the left fielder Kashiwaeda cracked out a mighty wallop to clean the bases. Yogi, the next batter, hit another home run to account for the fifth run. The 442nds scored two more runs in the second inning on two hits and two...

Camp Shelby Baseball

Allowing only one hit, a home run in the fifth inning with one man on base, pitcher Anzai of the 442nd Infantry team, led his mates to a10-2 victory over the 202nd Engineers yesterday afternoon on diamond No.7. Capitalizing on 6 errors and seven walks the 442nd Infantry pushed over seven runs in the first three innings and three more in the last. The winners batted all around in the third inning as four runs crossed the plate. Third baseman Joe Yoshimura and right fielder Oka drew walks and advanced on a fly to centerfield by Lou Iwoka. Shortstop Koono walked to fill the bases. Yoshimura scored on Higuchi's roller to 2nd and center fielder Ysimuza drew another walk. Then came Anzai’s sizzling double and...

Camp Shelby Baseball

Camp Shelby Boxing

More than 1,000 people attended the boxing bouts Wednesday night in the 474th Quartermaster regimental athletic area… … Next on the program was an exhibition of “Judo” which is the art of self-defense and hand-to-hand combat without weapons. The exhibition was staged by two members of the 442nd Inf. Combat Team presented by Pvt. Jimmy Kubo of Honolulu. Then came the six boxing bouts in the first bout Mouro defeated Georgie; the second was fought to a draw by a Bajos and Negeley. The third went to Finazzo winner over Curtis. Style was victor over Pasquale in the fourth match. The fifth saw Figuerro defeat John Spatare and Salvatore Spataro took the sixth from Omeda. Salvatore Spataro holds the lightweight championship of Camp Shelby and...

Camp Shelby Boxing

The first preliminaries of the Camp Shelby Championship Boxing Tournament were held last night at the outdoor arena. Approximately 3000 soldiers were present. The bout between Sgt. Fred Holmes and Cpl. Tommie Sapovino was the best of the evening and their slugging raised cheers. The results follow: 112 lb. novice: Pvt. Joe Fujimoto, Co. K 442nd Inf. decisioned Pvt. Chester Oganeku, Co. H. 442nd Inf. 126 lb. Novice: Pvt. Bobby Iwomoto, Hq. Co., 442nd Inf. decisioned Pvt. Robert Miyomoto, Co. D, 442nd Inf. 135 lb. Novice: Pfc. Cephas Stone, 278th Qm Co. decisioned Pvt. Herbert Akamine, Med. Det. 442nd Inf. 118 lb. Novice: Pvt. Wallace Miyamoto, Co. D. decisioned Pvt. Charles Sakato, Bat. C. 522nd F. A. 135 lb. Novice: Pvt. Takishi Mizukami, Co. B,...

Capt. M. E. Smith Receives A Visitor

Captain Claude P. White Promoted To Major

Close Work In The Ring

Combat Team And Girl Guests Enjoy Week-In Dances

The 442nd Combat Team had a thoroughly enjoyable week-end with girl guests from the Rohwer and Jerome Relocation Centers in Arkansas. The three bus-loads of girls and their chaperones arrived in Camp Shelby late Saturday afternoon. Some of them had been here for the dance which the combat team had on May 1, but most of the group were newcomers. The dance which began at 8 PM at Service Club 5 was opened by the theme song of Pfc Chris Zarba’s 296 Eng. Band. The Service Club was beautifully and especially decorated for the members of the Combat Team and their guests. Chinese lanterns were strung across the front and rear of the club, balloons and long cellophane “hula skirts” were hung from the lights,...

Combat Team Gives $6800 To Paralysis Fund

A check for $6800 was formally handed over to Col. C. W. Pence, commander of the Japanese-American Combat Team at regimental headquarters at Camp Shelby today — the proceeds of a two week strive among soldiers of the Combat Team for the Hawaiian poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) emergency hospital fund. Accepting the check which he will forward to Honolulu as the Combat Team’s donation, Colonel Pence said: “It isn't only the amount that provides great satisfaction, but there is the additional outstanding fact that the money has been donated by soldiers who come from both the mainland and Hawaii. That, I believe, is indicative of the spirit of teamwork which has become a characteristic attribute of the Combat Team. Fitting Parallel “The infantile paralysis drive that...

Combat Team Medics Especially Talented

Japanese American soldiers serving in the medical detachment of the Combat Team at Camp Shelby show a greater natural aptitude for their work than any other soldiers he has encountered as a group, according to Regimental Surgeon Capt. C. H. Buckley who commands the detachment. “Assignment here brought my first extensive contact with Japanese Americans,” said Capt. Buckley, “and I have been highly pleased with the personnel of the medical detachment. An exceptional number of these have had pre-medic, pharmaceutical or hospital experience and their zeal for continuing their studies and gaining further practical experience goes beyond any obvious degree. To some of them, off-duty means only more time to work at self-improvement and to widen their scope of army learning.” The medical detachment has...

Combat Team Recruits Make Up Lost Time

Drilling doubly hard in order “to catch up” with their fellow Japanese Americans who were inducted earlier, late comers to the Nisei Combat Team at Camp Shelby are putting in hard licks as members of the recruit training class which assembles daily in the area fronting regimental headquarters. Commanded by 1st Lt. David L. Moseley of Eastanollee, Ga., this class was organized to aid those volunteers who reported here after the regular basic training schedule was well underway. They realized they are out to make up for lost time, but, according to 1st Lt. Richard K. Betsui, executive officer, of Honolulu, “These new men are showing a keen desire to learn. They have great ability, they take their training seriously and are doing fine. Instructors...

Combat Team Review Today

Combat Team Soldiers Can Put Bite On Axis

Soldiers of the Japanese American Combat Team in training at Camp Shelby are well equipped to put the bite on the Axis. Routine examinations of incoming men have revealed an amazing healthy condition of their teeth, according to Capt. Wayland F. Hogan, regimental dental surgeon. Almost every volunteer examined showed the benefits of some knowledge of oral hygiene, and their dental repair work without exception, bespoke good workmanship and the latest technique, Capt. Hogan said. But more impressive than generalities are some figures given out by the regimental dental surgeon. The records of approximately 3,800 men in each of three other regiments were put alongside those of the same number of Japanese Americans. Comparisons In Infantry Regiment A, out of 3,800 men, 1,000 were found...

Company K Entertains the 442nd

Co. K, 3rd Bn., 442nd Inf., is presenting a musical skit tonight in Dixon Stadium, the amphitheater just behind Service Company, 442nd Inf. Sgt. Charles Tanaka, leader of the Hawaiian Combateers, is in charge of the program and promises one full of variety, talent, and laughs. Opening the program, the Co. K Serenaders will sing “Across the Sea,” a memory-provoking melody. Pvt. Rodney Miyamoto and his Co. K Tumblers will perform next and then Pvt. Sugio Mizota and his harmonica will be heard. Officers not to be outdone, will be represented by Lt. Edgar H. Graham, who will play his trumpet “Harry James style.” Jitterbugs will be represented by Pvt. Stanley Hashimoto, who will give a “jumpin’ jive jitterbug” demonstration. Completing the program, Sgt. Tanaka...

Company L Entertains the Combat Team

Company L, 442nd Infantry, gave a variety show entertainment Wednesday evening at the third battalion amphitheater of the Japanese American combat team. The title was “You Can Take It With You. (We don't want it!)” comedy skits, group and chorus singing, Hawaiian melodies, and a magician were among the numbers. The magician overestimated his ability to get out of rope knots. Tied up early in the show, he was still writing in .meshes when the show closed and the audience had departed. An officers’ trio, Capt. R T. Applegarth, and Lts. R. W. Smith and Milton L. Brenner sang several numbers to ukulele accompaniment while prospective non-coms were bidden by an off-stage sign to “clap like hell.” A perniciously interfering peanut vendor, crying “Hot, frosted...

Crack Army Battalion From Hawaii

Earl Finch Brings Entertainment To The 442nd

Five New Soldiers Join the 442nd

Five more Japanese-American volunteers arrived at the Combat Team Saturday morning from the Minidoka Relocation Center, Hunt, Idaho, and from New Jersey. Inducted at Fort Douglas, Utah, Pvts. Augustine Aratani, Yoshio Kato, and John Kawaguchi spent their 14-day furlough traveling eastward to Chicago and New York City. They found the two cities big and busy and exciting since this was their first opportunity in over a year to walk through the streets of a large city. They had a great time visiting friends and then going to the USO centers. Pvts. Mamo Nakayama and Ross Hiraoka were the arrivals from Fort Dix, New Jersey. Nakayama is a native of New Jersey while Hiraoka was relocated only recently to that state from the Gila River Relocation...

Four From Same Home In Combat Team

Not many homes can fly four-star service flags, but Mrs. Earl T. Kubo has one in the window of 2203 Coyne street, Honolulu — and she's only 31 years old. It all comes of the fact that when there's a war on the Kubos and the Ishiis get busy and join up. Here's the picture: Mr. And Mrs. Earl T. Kubo bought a new home at 2203 Coyne street and with them went to live with Kubo's brother Ralph, and Mrs. Kubo's two brothers, Harry and Teiji Ishii. When opportunity came for the Americans of Japanese ancestry to enlist for the Combat Team at Camp Shelby, Earl and Ralph Kubo and Harry and Teiji Ishii promptly volunteered. The father of Earl and Ralph served in...

Frederick O. Jimbo Receives Warrant Officer Commission

Fri-Sun Club of the 232nd Engineers

The Fri-Sun Recreational Club celebrated its second anniversary July 17 in the day room of the 232nd Engs. of the Japanese American Combat Team. The Fri-Sun, a club created especially for and by defense workers in Hawaii, got its name from the meetings and dances which were held every Friday and Sunday evenings in Honolulu. The defence workers arriving in Honolulu from surrounding islands were often lonely and friendless with nothing to do in their spare time. The YWCA, with Miss Mildred Towle as supervisor, began the Fri-Sun Club in an effort to acquaint the young people who had left their homes to take defense jobs in Honolulu. Started as an idea, the Fri-Sun club soon gained momentum and popularity and now boasts a membership...

General Emmons Leaves Hawaii June 1

(By Associated Press) Honolulu, May 28. — Lieut. General Delos C. Emmons, commander of the Hawaiian department of U. S. Army during the grim days following the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor will relinquish that command June 1 and be succeeded by Major Gen. Robert C. Richardson. General Emmons, who made the announcement of the change yesterday after he had received the distinguished service medal in recognition of his outstanding work here, did not disclose his new assignment but speculation immediately arose that he might take over the western defense command in the Fourth Army, now headed by Lieut. Gen. John L. DeWitt. “There wouldn't be a more pleasant place to serve” than San Francisco, General Emmons said in explaining he was unable to...

Happy Birthday Pvt. Kiyoshi Tsubata

Having A Swim In Hattiesburg

Hawaiian Chaplain Will Come To Camp Shelby

(by Associated Press) Honolulu, T. H., June 9 — Hawaii's first chaplain of Japanese ancestry to enter the armed forces is Masao Yamada, 36, a practical Congregational minister who says “God and guns will win the war for the United Nations.” A first lieutenant in the army chaplain corps, he will join American soldiers of Japanese ancestry now in training in Camp Shelby, Miss., for combat duty. One of the first advocates of an American army of volunteers of Japanese ancestry, he is well acquainted with the background and training of Japan's military machine A graduate of Auburn Theological Seminary in New York, his studies took him to Tokyo for seven years where he had a ringside seat during the uprising “when the militarist failed...

Hawaiian Entertainers of the 442nd