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Farrant L. Turner
James Lovell
Katsumi Kometani
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Mitsuyoshi Fukuda
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Israel Yost
Masao Yamada
Hiro Higuchi
George Aki
Medical Team
Dr. Richard Kainuma
Dr. Isaac Kawasaki
Kenneth K. Otagaki
Isaac Akinaka
Prisoners of War
Why do you fight for America?
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Brothers Matsuei & Tokio Ajitomi
Kiyoshi Jimmie Shiramizu
A Company, 3rd Platoon Letter
Hideyuki Hayashida
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1399th Engineer Construction Battalion
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Nisei Soldiers of Hawaii
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Earl Finch
Yoshinao ‘Turtle’ Omiya
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June – Five Years Ago
Those Jap Soldiers in Wisconsin
Dedication Ceremony Remarks by Kazuma Hisanaga
Able Chapter News
Memories: The 100th Infantry Battalion (Sep)
Camp Shelby
Memories: From Camp Shelby to Italy
New York, New York, Remembering 64 Years Ago
One Puka Puka Aloha
Discrimination
Good Things Grow From Horse Manure
Peek Into the Past: My Friend, Spud
Personal Recall
Friendships
100th Battalion’s Contribution To Sparta’s Memorial Park
Winona Post & Shopper
Mailbag
Nisei soldiers return to visit Fort McCoy
Secret Missions
Cat Island
‘D’ Days – Sargento of the Palamettos
Cat Island’s History Lures Pbs
A Special Affair
Sports Recreation and Incidents
Secret Mission of the 3rd Platoon, Baker Company
MIS
Roll Call Of The Nisei’s
Mistaken For Pow’s
Going To Battle
Nisei’s In Action
Mission Accomplished
Marauders No More
Nisei Hall
A Kibei in the Burma Jungle
100ths Misers In Action
14 Nisei And The Marauders
Sports
Notes On Kenneth Kaneko As An Athlete
Boxing
100th Inf. Bn. Baseball Team
Major E. E. Schroeder USAR (ret)
442nd Regimental Combat Team
Memories of Col. Virgil Miller
Wartime Hawaii
Drafted! Prelude to the Day of Infamy
Pearl Harbor Attacked! War!
The Usat Royal T. Frank Torpedoed In Hawaiian Waters!
Hawaiian Provisional Battalion
Emergency Service Committee
Veterans Keep Memories Alive At Hawaiian Punchbowl
Hawaiian Statehood and the Club 100
On Citizenship And The Club 100
World War II Huaka‘i and Mele
Our Silver Anniversary
European Campaigns
Combat!!
100th Infantry Battalion Lineage and Honors
Able Co. History Replete With Action
Our Company ‘B’ Edition Takes a Bow
Nisei ‘Purple Heart Battalion’ Earns Place in History
Recollections of the War
Nisei
Keynote Address by Young O. Kim
‘Go For Broke’ members still awaiting recognition
My War Tales
Personal Reflections and Reminiscence
Dog Company Reminiscences
The 100th Infantry Battalion: A Summation
The Heart Of The Matter
A Brief Chronicle Of The 100th
Editorial
Christmas — 1943
Italian Campaign
Anzio
Memories: From Anzio To Civitavecchia
President’s Message
Retrospect of the Anzio breakthrough
Cassino
Cassino By Tom Nagata
WWII Memories – Cassino, Rapido River
WW2 Memories – Cairo-Cassino
A Path Through The Minefields
Everything But The Kitchen Sink
Col. Singles Pays Tribute To Soldiers
Japanese-American Combat Force Led Attack Of Famed U.S. Division Into Battle
Reflections
Bernard Akamine’s Recollection of 5/2/45:
With The 92nd Infantry Division (Reconstituted)
“Down Memory Lane”
To Lorrin P. Thurston
There I Was, In Italy . . . .!
Thanksgiving On Hill 920
Jap-Americans On Firing Line
Hawaiian Japanese Troops Smile On Going Into Action Against Nazis
Samurai—American Style, The 100th Infantry Battalion
Some Memories Of The War
Memories of World War II
Anzio Beachhead—May 1944 “In Flanders Fields the Poppies Blow”
WW2 Memories, Thanksgiving 1943
WW2 Memories, Colli-Hill 920
WWII Memories, Majo Hill, 1944
Memories, Pozzilli, Hill 600 – November 1943
Memories: Civitavecchia To Pisa And Beyond
Memories Of Hill 600
Memories: From Colli To Cassino
Memories: Return To Italy; On To Genoa; Homeward Bound
The Battle Of Belvedere
The Battle Of Lanuvio
Combat In Italy
Anecdote/The Accordion
French Campaign
Lost Battalion
From Hajime Yamane (B)
One Part Of The Story Of The “LOST Battalion”
Marty Higgins Praised The 100th/442nd Rct
The Rescue Mission Of The Lost Battalion
Memories: A Jeep Driver In France
The Ending
P-U-K-A S-Q-U-A-R-E-S
Veterans
Officers
The Need for Heroes
Farrant Turner
Salute to Colonel Turner
The Old Man I Knew
From the Editor’s Desk
The Spirit of Tomorrow
Mitsuyoshi Fukuda
In the Spirit of the One Puka Puka
In the Spirit of the One Puka Puka, part II
Fukuda’s Heroism Reflects 100th’s War Record
Eulogy for Mitsuyoshi Fukuda
Fukuda Commanded Troops and Respect
Young Oak Kim
Ret. Col. Young O. Kim Receives French Legion Of Honor Award
Korean-American War Vet Awarded Korea’s Highest Military Honor
Col. Young Oak Kim, 100th Inf. Bn. Visionary Leader Passes Away
A Korean War Veteran Remembers
Lt. Harold C. Ethridge
Celebrating the Life of Howard K. Hiroki
Major John Johnson
Salute to Major James Lovell
A ‘BASTARD Outfft’-What Else? (PART II)
Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
Doc, I’ll keep the pain
Salute to Takeichi ‘Chicken’ Miyashiro
Sakae Takahashi Earns Another Medal
Our Salute to Sakae Takahashi
From Many to the One
Soldiers
Awakuni, the Tank-Buster
Awakuni, the Tankbuster II
G.I. Japyank
Bushido Code of Ethics Places Honor Above All Else
The Music of a Man’s Life
The Low Valleys Of North Africa
From Kompan-Man to a DSC II
Ken Kaneko: ‘I had no choice!’
From Private to President Portrai of a Soldier-Statesman
From Kompan-Man to a DSC
Once to Every Man
Speech for Yoshiharu Satoh
Dr. Kenneth K. Otagaki
P-U-K-A S-Q-U-A-R-E-S
Death-dealing Encounters of a Personal Kind
Goro ‘Leighton’ Sumida
Of Heroes: Past and Present
Minister with a Flair
Mike Tokunaga: The ‘Organizer’ Who Helped Build the Democratic Party
WW II Experiences – Pentagon, Paris, Berlin
The Things that Count
Legacy Cookbook Memories
Baker Chapter News
Chaplains
The Reverend Gets Another Medal
Heaven Can Wait
Mahalo And Aloha, Chaplain Yost
Memories: A Salute to Chaplain Israel Yost
Medical Team
From the Medicine Chest
Prisoners of War
Salute to Stan Akita
Medal of Honor Awardees
Salute to Shizuya Hayashi
Salute to Yeiki Kobashigawa
‘Hershey’ Miyamura and Other Korean War MOH Recipients Recognized as Heroes
A Fellow Veteran Remembers
Development of the Medal of Honor
Killed in Action
Interment Rites
Interment Services for KIA Held
Services Held in Japan for Enomoto
Closing Remarks
Cassino Farmer Uncovers Remains
The Death of a Hero
Memorial Day Address by Steve Sato
Memories-Goat Hill-Salerno Bay
Step Off the Road, And Let the Dead Pass By
Club 100 & Post War Years
Activities
Dedication of the Turner Portrait
President Eisenhower in Hawaii!
Formation & Early Years
Let’s Have a Club 100
Memories of the first 100th Inf. Clubhouse
Clubhouse Site Purchase Consumated
Club 100 History
Post War: Club 100
Honorary Members
Honorary Members, Club 100
Honorary Member Leslie F. Deacon
Honorary Member Joseph R. Farrington
Colonel Fielder Elected Honorary Member
Earl Finch: Honorary Member
Earl Finch, an Honorary Member of Club 100, Dies at 49
Honarary Member: Charles Hemenway
Charles R. Hemenway
General Charles W. Ryder
Memorial Services
Memorial Address
Memorial Message
Club 100 Memorial Ceremony
Rosson Keynotes 27th Memorial Service
‘Message From Joe’
Ambassadors Without Arms
Memorial Address By Chaplain Israel A. S. Yost
The Making of the 100th
Politics
Club Members Running for Political Office
Club Members In General Election Go All Out
Excerpts from Sparky Matsunaga’s Testimony
Politics – And The Club 100
Reunions & Friendships
Monument Dedicated at Bruyeres
34th Division Requests Citizenship Rights
A Debt of Gratitude
The Keynote Message at the 35th Anniversary Banquet
A Co. 100 Bn. Tour to Europe
McCoy memories: Hawaiian vets return to say thanks
Club 100’s Anniversary
Her World
A Pilgrimage – And a Memento Out of the Past
Mike Tokunaga, Untitled
Incident Near Bruyeres
Misc. Speeches & Articles
S.S. Maui Sold for Scrap
Did You Know
Americans of Japanese Ancestry are Fighting on the Italian Front
Personnel No Problem
Hawaii’s GI Janes
Presidio Museum Salutes the 100th and 442nd
Remarks on the Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Observance
Iraq-Bound Soldiers Honor Japanese-American WWII Veterans
Go-For-Broke
Remarks by Major General Antonio Taguba
Radio Address
Memoirs and Journals
Isaac Akinaka
Kakuto Higuchi
Stanley Izumigawa
Dr. Richard Kainuma
Masanobu Eugene Kawakami
Richard Oguro
Dr. Kenneth Otagaki
Remembrances
Jerry Sakoda
Kazuto Shimizu
Kiyoshi Harry Shimizu
Kaoru Suzuki
Thomas Tsubota
Rikio Tsuda
Oral Histories and Interviews
Kazuma Monty Nishiie
Major James Lovell
Walter Iwasa
Newspaper Articles
Hawaii Herald – Special Anniversary Issue
Club 100’s Wives & Widows
Herman’s Store
Fujii & Nakamura Streets
Hawaii’s Legendary Battalion
Maj. James Lovell
A Maui Vet Remembers
Ray Nosaka: A Leading Man
Ralph Fukunaga
Battle on the ‘Homefront’
One Puka Puka
Taking Care of the Boys
A Colorful 50 Years Since War
Hawaii Herald – Ben Tamashiro
442nd RCT
Portrait of a Soldier: Kaoru Moto
An X-ray of One Man’s Spirit: Tamotsu Shimizu
Congressional Medal of Honor: Sadao Munemori
Butterflies are for Real: Howard Y. Miyake
Howard Miyake, Part 2
Mary Hamasaki: Unbreakable Spirit
It’s a Small World: Larry Miyasato
The ‘Dogs’ of War
Allan M. Ohata
Young O. Kim
The Liberation of Dachau
Liberation of Dachau, Part 2
The Antitank Company, 442 RCT
Charles Toguchi
Forty-two Years After the Battle of Bruyeres: James Kawashima: The Story Behind a GI Photo
Robert Taira: Educator & Soldier
Robert S. Taira: Part 2
Barton Nagata’s Touch with the Holocaust
Jim Mizuno
GI Christmas
Kazuo Yamane’s Key Discovery
From Pearl Harbor to the Po and Beyond: We Remember
Miscellaneous Articles About Veterans
Photo Collections & Biographies
A-G
Bernard Akamine
Akira Akimoto
Isaac Akinaka
Stanley Akita
Robert Arakaki
Seiko Chinen
Ernest Enomoto
Mansaku Fujita
H-M
Richard Kunio Hamada
Masami Hamakado
Stanley Hamamura
Tadayoshi Hamasaki
Edward Harada
Kenneth M. Higa
Seichi Hoashi
Masao Horio
Thomas Ibaraki
Edward Ikuma
James Inafuku
George T. Inouye
Shigeru Inouye
Yoroku Ito
Masato Iwasa
Walter Iwasa
Stan Izumigawa
Gordon M. Kadowaki
Tad Kanda
Masanobu Eugene Kawakami
Takeshi Kawakami
James Kawashima
Toshio Kikuta
Takashi Kitaoka
Arthur T. Komiyama
James Kiyoshi Kubokawa
Takao Kubota
Susumu Kunishige
Conrad Kurahara
Don Matsuda
Richard K. Magarifuji
Tom Matsumura
Kenneth Mitsunaga
Masayoshi Miyagi
Harry Hisao Miyamoto
Takeichi Miyashiro
Toshi Morishige
Kenneth Muroshige
N-S
Isao Nadamoto
Richard Nakahara
Toshikatsu Nakahara
Shinyei Nakamine
Jack Nakamura
Sonsei Nakamura
Henry Nakasone
Etsuo Nakaya
Hideshi Niimi
Tommy Nishioka
Raymond Nosaka
George K. Nushida
Albert Yutaka Oki
Charlie Okimoto
Tokuji Ono
Wallace Tadashi Onuma
James Oshiro
Seie Oshiro
Itsuki Oshita
Kenneth Kengo Otagaki
Horace (Stanley) Kango Sagara
Roy Sato
Kazuto Shimizu
Herbert Sueoka
Leighton Goro Sumida
Kaoru Suzuki
T-Z
William Takaezu
Shizuo Robert Takashige
Yasuhide Takushi
Harold Tamashiro
Taketora “Jim” Tanaka
Fumi Taniyama
Denis Teraoka
Moriso Teraoka
Wallace T. Teruya
Takeshi Teshima
Stanley Teruya
Mike Tokunaga
Sam Tomai
Warren Tonaki
Shigeru “Stu” Tsubota
Thomas Tsubota
Rikio Tsuda
Conrad Tsukayama
Gary Uchida
Keijiro Umebayashi
James Clyde Vaughn
Ukichi “Thomas” Wozumi
Naoji Yamagata
Richard Yamamoto
Yozo Yamamoto
Susumu Yoshioka
Killed In Action
Individuals
Letters
Lt. Colonel Farrant L. Turner
S/Sgt J. Akamine, March 11, 1944
R.M. Allen, 12/15/1944
Col. W.A. Anderson, 11/27/1944
Col. W.A. Anderson, 01/30/1945
Pvt. Lee H Blood, 10/23/1946
Lt. R.A. Drolet, 09/04/1945
Geo (Bud) Faulder, 03/28/1945
George (Bud) Faulder, October 17, 1944
George (Bud) Faulder, 03/31/1945
Andy Fraser, 11/24/44
Capt Andy Fraser, 04/24/1945
Capt Mits Fukuda, 11/02/1943
1st Sgt John K Hatori, 02/14/1945
Blair Henderson, 12/01/1944
Lt. Col. Blair E Henderson, 12/22/1944
Lt. Col. Blair E Henderson, March 15, 1945
Col. Blair E. Henderson, 06/29/1945
Edward T Hirokawa, 07/16/1944
Lt. Colonel John H. Hougen, 08/04/1944
Lt. Col. John H. Hougen, 03/26/1945
Leroy A. Howland, 01/03/1947
Roy Izumi, 06/14/1945
Izumi (undated)
Capt. R.T. Kainuma, 08/20/1944
Kaji, 07/19/1944
H Kajikawa, 10/26/1944
WOJG Hideo Kajikawa, 08/13/1944
WO Hideo Kajikawa, 10/07/1944
Eugene Kawakami, 11/15/1944
H. Kawano, 07/16/1945
Doc (Dr. Katsumi Kometani), 06/27/1945
Doc (Dr. Katsumi Kometani), undated
Mitsuyuki Kido, 10/24/1944
Capt K Kometani, 05/24/1944
Capt K Kometani, 09/07/1944
Capt K Kometani, 10/05/1944
Capt K Kometani, 10/25/1944
Capt K Kometani, 11/10/1944
K. Kometani, 12/12/1944
Captain K. Kometani, 12/14/1944
Capt K Kometani, 12/15/1944
Capt K Kometani, 01/06/1945
Capt K Kometani, 02/28/1945
Capt K Kometani, 04/16/1945
K Kometani, 05/14/1945
Capt K Kometani, 06/01/1945
George Landy, 04/24/1945
Col. Phil F. Lindeman, 05/24/1945
Major James W. Lovell, 06/25/1945
Maj Jim W Lovell, 07/01/1944
Maj Jim W Lovell, 07/06/1944
Maj Jim W Lovell, 12/18/1944
Maj Jim W Lovell, 01/14/1945
Maj. Jim W. Lovell, 09/27/1944
Maj Jim W Lovell, 10/23/1944
Maj Jim W. Lovell, 12/28/1944
Jim W. Lovell, 02/18/1945
Capt Frank Marzano, 11/11/1944
Capt. Rocco G Marzano, 01/16/1945
Capt. R J Mac McKelvy, 02/09/1945
Jack Mizuha, 10/1944
Capt Jack Mizuha, 01/10/1945
Capt Jack H Mizuha, 12/30/1944
Captain Jack H Mizuha, 04/06/1945
T/Sgt Wallace T Morioka, 06/28/1944
Walter Nakamoto, 05/03/1945
WOJG Nick F M Nakamura, 06/28/1951
Pvt. Edward K Nashiwa, 11/14/1944
Yoshiharu Nishida, 06/27/1944
Cpl John Ito Ogura, 12/11/1944
T/Sgt Tad Ohta, 08/14/1944
T/Sgt Tad Ohta, 09/20/1944
T/Sgt Tad Ohta, 10/17/1944
T/Sgt Tad Ohta, 12/03/1944
T/Sgt Tad Ohta, 12/24/1944
T/Sgt Tad Ohta, 02/20/1945
T/Sgt Tad Ohta, 05/24/1945
T/Sgt Andrew M Okamura, 06/05/1945
Y Omiya (undated)
Lt. Col. Jos. I. Orville, 02/18/1945
Ken Otagaki, 07/09
Maj W Bill Overbeck, 07/26/1945
Maj W Bill Overbeck (undated)
Capt. Philip B Peck, 12/19/1944
Chaplain/Lt. Col. Edward M. Pennell, Jr., 01/17/1945
Wm S. Pye, 01/08/1946
Cpl. Shinobu Tofukuji, 10/29/1944
Shinobu Tofukuji, 11/23/1944
T/5 Shinobu Tofukuji, 12/20/1944
Pfc. R Tomita, 06/08/1944
Pfc R Tomita, 10/05/1944
Farrant Turner, 07/29/1944
Sgt Gary Uchida, 08/21/1944
Lt. Col, AGD Dee M White, 04/16/1945
Pvt. John M Yamanoha, 07/18/1945
T/4 H Yamashita, 06/06/1945
Chaplain I Yost, 09/20/1944
Israel A.S. Yost, 02/26/1946
Israel Yost, 02/26/1946
Doc (Dr. Katsumi Kometani), Date unknown
Howard, Date unknown
Jim (Major James Lovell), 09/03/1944
Jim (Major James Lovell), 05/21/1945
Kai (Dr. Richard Kainuma), 07/02/1945
Kome, (Dr. Katsumi Kometani) 10/31/1944
Kome (Dr. Katsumi Kometani), 11/15/1944
Kome (Dr. Katsumi Kometani), 05/05/1945
Steve, 07/10/1944
Unknown, 10/09/1944
Unknown, 11/08/1944
Unknown, 11/29/1944
Unknown, 04/06/1945
Hideo Akiyama
Letter to Fujiko, 9/2/1943
Letter to Fujiko, 10/16/1943
Letter to Eizo, 12/5/1943
Letter to George, 12/5/1943
Letter to Fujiko 2/2/1944
Letter to George 4/10/1944
Letter to Fujiko 6/8/1944
Letter to Fujiko, 2/10/1944
Saburo Nishime
12/27/1941
01/30/1944
01/10/1945
04/30/1945
05/15/1945
07/11/1945
07/21/1945
10/18/1945
11/20/1945
03/31/1946
Undated
Stanley Izumigawa
8/21/1942
8/23/1942
4/21/1943
6/9/1943
7/31/1943
8/29/1943
9/2/1943
9/26/1943
9/30/1943
10/16/1943
10/24/1943
11/14/1943
No Date, 12/25/1943
12/28/1943
No Date – Possibly 12/1943 (1)
No Date – Possibly 12/1943 (2)
No Date, 1943
1/11/1944
No Date – Possibly 1/1944
2/4/1944
V-mail (1)
V-mail (2)
3/10/1944
4/24/1944
Anzio, No Date
5/13/1944
6/5/1944
6/7/1944
6/22/1944
No Date – Money Order
No Date – Italy
8/7/1944
8/9
8/13
No Date
8/2/1944
8/31/1944
9/20/1944
10/3/1944
Thanksgiving Day
10/26/1944
11/6/1944
11/28/1944
12/3/1944
12/6/1944
12/9/1944
12/13/1944
12/19/1944
12/25/1944
12/31/1944
1/11/1945
1/29/1945
No Date – Gift
3/18
4/4
4/23
4/27/1945
5/1/1945
5/6/1945
5/9/1945
5/23/1945
10/26/1945
Wisconsin Stories
George Splinter
The Hendersin Family
Ship Manifests
Headquarters
A Company
B Company
C Company
E Company
F Company
Transcripts
About Us
Mission
Organization
How to Get Involved
Contact Information
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