A Pilgrimage Honoring the 100th Infantry Battalion
Janice Sakoda
Special to The Hawai‘i Herald
Mid-May of 1944 was a pivotal period in the history of the 100th Infantry Battalion, highlighted by the Allied effort to wrest the 1,700-foot high Benedictine monastery called Monte...
Pearl Harbor 75th Anniversary – Pearl Harbor Civilian Casualties
Many Were Victims of “Friendly Fire”
Allan Beekman
Special to The Hawai‘i Herald
(Reprinted from Dec. 6, 1991)
A disproportionate number of the civilian casualties of the Pearl Harbor attack were Nikkei, with some of the most striking casualties...
Lead Story – Fighting Two Wars
Japanese Americans Were Forced to Fight Two Battles in World War II
Karleen C. Chinen
On this 75th anniversary of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, many people are seeking out the newspapers of December 1941 for...
AJA Veterans – THREE AJA SOLDIERS UNDER REVIEW FOR MEDAL OF HONOR
Gregg K. Kakesako
Special to The Hawai‘i Herald
Nineteen Hawai‘i-born residents, 13 of them Japanese Americans, have been honored with the simple sky-blue Medal of Honor – the country’s highest award for valor under fire in...
“Mighty Men of Valor”
Editor’s note: The U.S. Army and the U.S. Navy faced each other on June 22 — but the venue was not a football field. Rather, it was the Pömaika‘i Ballroom at the Dole Cannery....
Willie Goo’s (Guardian Angel) Fog
Editor’s note: On this day, June 5, exactly 73 years ago, the all-Japanese American Hawaiian Provisional Infantry Battalion sailed out of Honolulu Harbor aboard the SS Maui. This was just six months after Japan’s...
“What Peace Means To Me”
“If we wish to create a lasting peace we must begin with the children.” – Mahatma Gandhi
Sixth graders enrolled in the “Blue Track” at Mililani Middle School hosted a peace ceremony on June 20,...
Lt. Gen. Francis Wiercinski: “Thank You, Nisei Veterans”
Editor's note: This story ran in our recent Congressional Gold Medal of Honor issue, which recognizes the 100th Infantry Battalion, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the Military Intelligence Service. Due to popular demand,...
442nd Veterans Celebrate 73rd Anniversary
Close to 500 World War II Nisei veterans, their families and friends turned out for the 442nd Veterans Club’s 73rd anniversary banquet at the Pacific Beach Hotel on April 10. About 60 of the...
Stories from WWII-era AJAs hit the Portland stage
Alton Takiyama-Chung, a former Honolulu resident who now lives in Portland, is bringing the story of the 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team to the stage.
The 49-year-old actor tells the Oregonian's...
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