October 28th, 1944, 125, 132
October 29th, 1944, 166
October 30th, 1944, 170–171
See also 1st Battalion, 141st Regiment (1/141)
Company D, 166, 171
Company E
October 26th, 1944, 76, 80
October 27th, 1944, 104
October 28th, 1944, 125, 132
October 29th, 1944, 143, 145
See also 2nd Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team (2/442); 442nd Regimental Combat Team
Company F
October 26th, 1944, 81
October 27th, 1944, 104
October 28th, 1944, 125, 132, 133
October 29th, 1944, 143, 145
See also 2nd Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team (2/442); 442nd Regimental Combat Team
Company G
October 26th, 1944, 59, 78
October 27th, 1944, 104
October 28th, 1944, 126–127, 132
October 29th, 1944, 143–144
See also 2nd Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team (2/442); 442nd Regimental Combat Team
Company I
Hajiro Transfer to, 24
liberation of Bruyères and Belmont, 49
October 27th, 1944, 92–93, 100, 104, 106, 111
October 28th, 1944, 113, 126–127, 138–139
October 29th, 1944, 155–156, 158–159, 162–164, 167–168
October 30th, 1944, 175, 178, 180, 185
rest In Bruyères, France, 84–85
See also 3rd Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team (3/442); 442nd Regimental Combat Team
Company K, 186, 209
in Italy, 200
October 26th, 1944, 72
October 27th, 1944, 92, 94, 100, 102, 104–105
October 28th, 1944, 113–115, 119, 132, 135–136, 138–139
October 29th, 1944, 156–158, 164, 167
October 30th, 1944, 179–181
Okubo assignment to, 21
rest in Bruyères, France, 85
See also 3rd Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team (3/442); 442nd Regimental Combat Team
Company L, 45, 100, 200
Company M, 24
compassion, 118, 135, 137, 160, 181
Comstock, James
mushroom scavenging, 64
October 28th, 1944, 127
prewar history, 64
resupply attempts and, 129
sleep, 108
telephone wire placement, 69–70
Congressional Gold Medal, 208
conscience, 101–102
Coolidge, Charles, 44, 99
Copeland, Aaron, 208
Corcieux, France, 11, 166
court martial, 24, 157
Cunningham, Arthur
capture of German prisoner, 90–91
October 27th, 1944, 89–91
October 28th, 1944, 116
October 30th, 1944, 172–173
prewar history of, 89–90
resupply attempts and, 116, 130
sleep, 108
D rations, 82, 110, 130
Dahlquist, John
at Arlington National Cemetery burials (June 4th, 1948), 207
court martial threat to Pursall, 157
death of Lewis, 150, 152
Göring treatment by, 217–218
hatred of, 127
letter to wife Ruth, 204
Lundquist fired by, 124, 218
micromanaging command, 124
November 12th, 1944, 192
October 24th, 1944, 28–31
October 25th, 1944, 43–44, 46, 48, 51–53, 58
October 26th, 1944, 65–68, 72, 80, 83–85
October 27th, 1944, 99, 109, 111–112
October 28th, 1944, 119, 121, 123–125, 132–134, 139
October 29th, 1944, 141–142, 149–150, 152–157, 164–166
October 30th, 1944, 171–172, 174, 181
Ohata’s refusal of order from, 155
Operation Dragoon and, 13–14
as operational leader of 141st Infantry Regiment, 68, 111–112, 124
order to fire on position 345573, 152–153
orders at front line, 155–157
postbattle analysis of command, 193
postwar experiences, 218
Presidential Unit Citation to 442nd, 192
prewar history of, 14–15
report from front line, 132–133
on resupply mission, 132
Sakato’s comments on, 215
Singles’s refusal of handshake, 213
Tanamachi burial cemetery, 147
Truscott and, 13–16
dead
442nd Regimental Combat Team ceremony for the dead (November 11th, 1944), 191–192
burial of, 97, 147, 179
removal from battlefield, 185
rigging bodies with mines, 182
delaying action, 74
Devers, Jacob, 147, 207
Deycimont, France, 183
digging in, 61–62
discrimination, 36, 47, 206, 213, 215
dishonor, 127
Distinguished Flying Cross, 216
Distinguished Service Cross
Dahlquist’s offer of, 134
Hajiro, Barney, 202
Higgins’s comments on, 187
Kim, Young Oak, 38
for members of 442nd, 201, 208
Miller’s recommendations for Singles and Pursall, 170
Sakato, George, 201–202, 215
Dixon, Robert, 86
Dochin, Niroku, 180
dog tags, 163
Doi, Shig, 155
Dole, France, 86, 96, 110
draft, 23, 64, 77, 107, 127
DSC. See Distinguished Service Cross
dugout, 103
Ego, Kenji, 78, 126, 143, 210–211
Eight Army (British), 197
Eisenhower, Dwight, 202, 218
Elbe River, 203
English, pidgin, 36, 106
Epinal, France, 26, 122, 211
Estes, Bruce
gas stove, 65
lack of sleep, 108
October 25th, 1944, 41
October 26th, 1944, 63, 65
October 28th, 1944, 116, 121–122, 128
resupply attempts and, 116, 122
Executive Order 9066, 19
FFI (Forces Françaises de l’Intérieur), 28
field hospital, 38–39, 44, 102–103, 138, 163, 167, 182, 186
field telephone, 69, 83
Fifth Army, 197
Flight Green, 95–96
Florence, Italy, 203
“Florida” hill, 200
food
C rations, 109, 116
D rations, 82, 110, 130
K rations, 31, 37, 83, 109, 181, 185, 198
mushrooms, 64
preoccupation with, 128
foot powder, 167
forest sounds as sentries, 61
Fort Bragg, North Carolina, 213
Fort Hood, Texas, 206
Fort Sam Houston, Texas, 213
forward artillery observers, 75–76, 86, 105, 117–118, 126–127, 153, 179
Foster, Mayhew, 96
Fougerolles, France, 96
foxholes, 1–2, 5, 10, 27, 36, 38, 41–43, 52, 55, 62–63, 65–68, 73, 77–78, 82, 91–92, 98, 105–107, 109–110, 115–117, 119–120, 125–131, 136, 138, 144–148, 152, 158, 160–161, 167, 173, 179
fortification of, 62, 130, 167, 179
temporary, 78
France
442nd arrival in, 25
effect of war on, 25–26
repatriation of French soldiers by Germans, 202
French Resistance, 12, 28, 143
French Riviera, 13, 16, 25
friendly fire, 68, 82, 110, 122, 195
Fujitomo, Hikosos, 127
Fujitomo, Kikuyo, 127
Fujitomo, Kunio, 127
Gamble, Robert, 86
gangrene, 220
gear, 59–60
Ghedi, Italy
, 203
Ghost Division
Gilman, James, 71–72
“Go For Broke Regiment,” 3, 201
Good Conduct Medal, 215
Göring, Hermann, 217
Gothic Line, 197, 200
Goto, Tak, 181
Grandjean, Henri, 12, 64
grave registration, 97, 100, 180
Greatest Generation, 205
grenades, 34, 99, 115, 145–146, 160, 199–200
guides, 12, 64, 183, 198
Guy, Edward, 63–64, 177–178, 202
Haeckel, Ernst, 151
Hajiro, Barney
at Bruyères, France, 26
Byrne and, 93
at Clinton’s Medal of Honor ceremony, 208
court martials, 24
death of Onaga, 160
Distinguished Service Cross, 202
in Italy, 23–24
October 28th, 1944, 113
October 29th, 1944, 158–162
postwar experiences, 214–215
prewar history of, 18, 23
Halazone, 65, 82, 111, 149, 167
Hale, Andy, 205
Hampton Roads, Virginia, 21
hand signals, 176
Hanley, James, Jr.
at Arlington National Cemetery burials (June 4th, 1948), 207
ceremony for the dead (November 11th, 1944), 191
complaint to Pence, 133
December 24th, 1944, 194
October 26th, 1944, 79–80
October 27th, 1944, 104–105
October 28th, 1944, 119, 126
October 29th, 1944, 142, 151
postwar experiences, 214
prewar history of, 79
Tanamachi burial cemetery, 147
Harime, France, 71
Harris, Moyer, 153
Harrison, Baya, 153
Hawaii, Japanese Americans from, 19, 21, 23, 36, 47–48, 49, 76, 101, 106, 124, 135, 177
Hayes, Edward, 122
Higgins, Martin
on 442nd’s arrival, 181
assessment of his soldiers, 11
awards, 180, 209, 218
burial at Arlington National Cemetery, 219
burial of dead, authorization for, 97
capture of, 195–196, 218
casualties/losses and, 80, 89–91, 147, 173, 178
cavalry, 9, 195
escape from POW camp, 202
German prisoners, 57, 90, 166, 171
Germans’ strategy for, 98–99
Guy’s opinion on, 64
interviews with, 183–184
joining the 1/141, 9–10
letter to Huberth, 219
October 23rd, 1944, 5, 7, 11–13
October 24th, 17, 27, 29–32
October 25th, 1944, 39–45, 48, 50–52, 57–58
October 26th, 1944, 61–65, 68–73, 80
October 27th, 1944, 89–90, 95–96, 109–110
October 28th, 1944, 116, 120, 128–130, 134–135
October 29th, 1944, 147–149, 153–154, 166–167
October 30th, 1944, 171–174, 178–182
October 31st, 1944, 183–184
Owens’s message to (October 30th, 1944), 183
personal history of, 40–41
postwar experiences, 219
prayer to be killed, 55
prewar history of, 9
prisoner of war, 195–197
resupplying of 1st Battalion, 141st Regiment (1/141), 81–84, 109–110, 116–117, 121–123, 129–130, 148–149
Sakumoto meeting, 178
Silver Star, 180, 218
statement to 442nd veterans, 187
weapons platoon, 42
wounding of (December 10th, 1944), 195
Hill 300, 15
Hill 595, 184
Hill 617, 66–67, 73–74, 76, 78, 102, 104, 126, 142–146, 151–152, 166
Hill 633, 58
Hill 645, 30
Hill C, 54
Hilty, Joe, 91
Himler, Heinrich, 218
Hitler, Adolf, 10, 56
“Hitler’s bone saw,” 73
Holderness, Arthur, 86
holes. See foxholes
Holston River, 89–90
Holtville, California, 33
honor, 124, 127, 139
Hood River, Oregon, 169–170
Hoover, J. Edgar, 18
Hopper, Leon, 86
horrors of war, 55, 130, 209, 210–211
hospital
field, 38–39, 44, 102–103, 138, 163, 167, 182, 186
internment camp, 20, 162
Stateside military, 214–215, 220
Huberth, Harry
assessment of his soldiers, 11
cavalry, 9, 195
food fantasy, 128
Higgins’s capture and, 195
joining the 1/141, 9–10
October 23rd, 1944, 5, 11–12
October 24th, 1944, 17, 29–30, 32
October 25th, 1944, 39–42
October 28th, 1944, 120–121
October 29th, 1944, 153
personal history of, 41
postwar experiences, 219
Hull, Bill, 28, 172
hunger, 109, 117, 128, 131, 137–138
hygiene, personal, 113, 128
Ichiyama, Ed, 105, 126–127, 159
Ikeda, Mas, 145
Inada, Ken, 135–136, 138–139, 209
Inouye, Daniel, 47, 205, 213
intelligence
Military Intelligence Service, 21, 204
Strategic Services Section, 143
internment camps, 3, 18–19
Akagi, Nelson and, 75
apology for, 207
Arkansas, 155
Doi, Shig and, 155
hospitals, 20, 162
Idaho, 75
Poston, Arizona, 35
reparations and, 214
Sakato, George and, 35, 113
volunteers from, 47, 155
Ishikawa, Lawrence, 84–85, 93, 111
Isobe, Kosaku, 180
Italy
100th Battalion in, 21–22, 37, 204
442nd Regimental Combat Team in, 21–24, 197–201, 203–204
Ito, Susumo, 117–118, 179
Ito, Tetsuo, 126–127
Ito, Ushuro, 206
Izui, Victor, 162–163
Jap Road, 209
Japan, war against, 204
Japanese Americans
anti-Japanese sentiment, 18–19, 205–207
discrimination, 36, 47, 206, 213, 215
from Hawaii, 19, 21, 23, 36, 47–48, 49, 76, 101, 106, 124, 135, 177
internment of, 3, 19, 35, 94, 145, 206–207, 214 (see also internment camps)
Nisei, 37, 46–47, 124–125, 158, 161, 181–182, 205–206, 215
postwar treatment, 205–209
reparations to, 207, 214
“Japantowns,” 214
Jodl, Alfred, 98
“the Jug,” 87
K rations, 31, 37, 83, 109, 181, 185, 198
kachikan, 127
Kahului, Hawaii, 76
Kamikawa, Harry, 7–9, 211
Kanaya, Jimmie
capture of, 39, 50
march to Stalag VII-A, 196
October 23rd, 1944, 38–39
postwar experiences, 213
Silver Star, 38
Kashiki, John, 33–34
Kashiki, Mary, 33
Kashino, Shiro, 138, 160
Kilgore, Harley, 18–19
killing, difficulty of, 135–137
Kim, Young Oak
at Biffontaine, France, 53–54
at Bruyères, France, 54
at Camp Shelby, 36–37
Distinguished Service Cross, 38
in Italy, 37
memories of France, 220
October 23rd, 1944, 38–39
postwar experiences, 213
prewar history, 36
Silver Star, 38
Singles’s reliance on, 91
wounding (October 2
2nd, 1944), 38
Kimble, Joseph
on Fort Hood American Legion, 206
October 23rd, 1944, 12
October 24th, 1944, 17, 29–30, 32
October 25th, 1944, 39
October 29th, 1944, 154
troops’ opinion of, 108
Kimura, Norman, 138
Kripisch, Harold, 71–72, 90, 183
Kubo, Tadashi, 184–185
kuni no tame ni, 127
Kunimatsu, Isamu, 214
Kuwayama, Kelly
care of wounded soldiers, 79–80, 104
October 26th, 1944, 79–80
October 27th, 1944, 104
October 28th, 1944, 125, 134
October 29th, 1944, 141, 144
prewar history of, 77
on replacement troops, 77–78
Silver Star, 144
La Houssière, France, 11, 58, 116, 184
Laval, France, 27, 34
Le Trapin de Saules, France, 31
Lear, Ben, 202
Leghorn, Italy, 22, 197, 203
Leonard, John
death of, 216
decorations/citations, 216
resupplying 1/141, 86–87, 96, 121–122, 148
Lepanges, French, 191
letters from home, 33, 34
Lewis, Wells, 149–150, 152
Lindsay, California, 75
Lippmann, Walter, 18
listening posts, 38, 42, 117
lookouts, 62
Lost Battalion, 77, 95–96, 121, 153, 166, 173–174, 176–177, 181, 183, 187, 193, 216, 219
See also 1st Battalion, 141st Regiment (1/141)
LSTs, 64
Luciano, Italy, 22
Lundquist, Carl
burial of dead, authorization for, 97
firing by Dahlquist, 124, 218
October 25th, 1944, 43–45, 50–52, 58
October 26th, 1944, 66–68, 72–73, 80–81, 83, 88
October 27th, 1944, 109, 111–112
October 28th, 1944, 124
postwar experiences, 218
machine-gun nests/positions, 2, 27, 37, 41, 43, 61, 63, 66, 74, 100, 115, 138, 145, 159, 161, 172, 177, 199
machine guns, 77
MG-42, 73
on P-47D Thunderbolt, 87
Thompson, 60, 145–146
Mark IV tanks (German), 101, 105
Marseille, France, 13, 25, 197
Marshall, George, 20, 204, 217–218
Masaoka, Ben, 184–185
Masuda, Minoru, 103
Masunaga, Mitsunori, 74–75
Matayoshi, Rocky, 59–60, 78, 104
Matsuda, Raymond, 205
Matsumoto, Goro, 126, 160
Matsumura, Renkichi, 184–185
Maunz, Erich, 151
Mayumi, Yoshio, 209
MacArthur, Douglas, 204
McCarthy, Joseph, 214
McQueen, Burt
foxhole roof, 110
October 25th, 1944, 52
October 26th, 1944, 63
October 27th, 1944, 90
October 28th, 1944, 116
October 29th, 1944, 147
Medal of Honor
Clinton’s ceremony, 208, 215
Coolidge, Charles, 99
for members of 442nd, 201–202, 208, 214
Munemori, Sadao, 200
Ohata, Allan, 156
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