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Volunteered as a replacement for the 100th/442nd Regimental Combat Team and trained thirteen weeks as light machine gunner replacement at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. Served with CO. L, 100th Bn/442nd Combat Team in Southern France and in Northern Italy as a rifleman 1st scout. Graduated from the University of Washington in 1950. Graduated from St. Louis School of Medicine in 1954. Internship and Resident, Pierce County Hospital, Tacoma, WA 1954-1956. Family Practice Medicine in Sumner, WA, 1956-1987. Served as president of the Puyallup Valley JACL for 2 terms. Served as Vice President National JACL from 1968-1970. Draft Board Member of the Eastern Pierce County from 1973-1976. President of Pierce County Medical Society from 1971-1972. Sumner Rotary Club President in 1971."},{"id":"ddr-csujad-49-240","model":"entity","index":"15 640/{'value': 716, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-49-240/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-csujad-49-240/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-csujad-49/ddr-csujad-49-240-mezzanine-f79bc53a31-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-csujad-49/ddr-csujad-49-240-mezzanine-f79bc53a31-a.jpg"},"title":"Tribute paid Nisei missing in action","description":"Newspaper clipping on Nisei from the 442nd Regimental Combat Team paying tribute to those missing action with a tribute at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Washington, D.C. An item from: pages 116-117 of the Sue Kato scrapbook (gfb_skc_001). 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