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Born May 16, 1917, in Hershey, Nebraska. Admitted to the Army Air Corps and flew thirty missions in Europe in a B-24 as a tailgunner and top turret gunner. Earned two Distinguished Flying Crosses and was acclaimed as the first Nisei war hero. Spoke at Heart Mountain, Wyoming, and two other camps in order to help encourage draft recruitment. Subpoenaed as a witness in the conspiracy trial of Heart Mountain's Fair Play Committee leaders. Later became the only Nisei to service in active combat with the Air Corps in the Pacific Theater, and flew twenty-eight additional missions over Japan. After World War II, became the first Japanese American editor of a general newspaper in Nebraska, and later edited newspapers in suburban Michigan and Southern California."},{"id":"ddr-densho-338-452","model":"entity","index":"8 58/{'value': 77, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-338-452/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-338-452/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-338/ddr-densho-338-452-mezzanine-d88ff295f5-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-338/ddr-densho-338-452-mezzanine-d88ff295f5-a.jpg"},"title":"Letter to Larry Tajiri from Margaret Anderson, editor of Common Ground","description":"Margaret Anderson offering an advance look at Carey McWilliams' new book.","extent":"8.5W x 11H","links_children":"ddr-densho-338-452","creators":[{"role":"author","namepart":"Anderson, Margaret"}],"format":"doc","language":["eng"],"persons":[{"namepart":"Tajiri, Larry"},{"namepart":"Anderson, Margaret"},{"namepart":"McWilliams, Carey"},{"namepart":"Kuroki, Ben"}],"contributor":"Densho","geography":[{"term":"New York, New York","id":"335"}],"rights":"cc","genre":"correspondence","location":"Sent from New York, New York","creation":"May 26, 1944","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Anderson, Margaret author Tajiri, Larry \nAnderson, Margaret \nMcWilliams, Carey \nKuroki, Ben","download_large":"ddr-densho-338-452-mezzanine-d88ff295f5-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-csujad-32","model":"collection","index":"9 59/{'value': 77, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-32/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-csujad-32/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-csujad-32/ddr-csujad-32-11-mezzanine-ddac41d25d-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-csujad-32/ddr-csujad-32-11-mezzanine-ddac41d25d-a.jpg"},"title":"CSU Dominguez Hills Minidoka Incarceration Camp Photograph Album","description":"The Minidoka Incarceration Camp Photograph Album is a photograph album featuring images from the Minidoka incarceration camp. 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