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Here is a group of Nisei wounded veterans of the Italian campaign and two Caucasian buddies being hospitalized at Dibble Hospital, Menlo Park, Palo Alto, California. Front row left to right are PFC Walter Heirakuji, 442nd regiment from Hawi, Hawaii; PFC Bud Schultz, who fought alongside the Nisei in Italy; Corp. Minoru Yoshida, 100th Infantry Battalion from Honolulu; PFC Andy Anderson, another Caucasian buddy of the Nisei boys; and PVT Masao Hayashida, 442nd, from Horualoa, Hawaii. In the back row are Corp. Steve Shimizu of the 442nd, from Honolulu; PFC. Kiyotaka Uchiyama of the 100th Infantry Battalion from Kealakekue, Hawaii; S/Sgt. Jack Kawamoto, 442nd from Honolulu; and PFC Roy T. Tsutsui of the 442nd from Salt Lake City, Utah. -- Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru -- Palo Alto, California. 7/14/45

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The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.