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One of the nisei being patched up at Dibble General Hospital, Palo Alto, California, is Private Masao Hayashida, member of the famous 442nd Infantry Combat Team whose home is at 160 Horualea, Hawaii. Private Hayashida enlisted in the army in March 1943 and received his basic training at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. He went overseas with the 442nd in May 1944 and was soon in the thick of things in the Italian Campaign. It was at Leghorn, Italy, in July of 1944 that Masao went out of action with a nasty bullet wound in his right ankle. He is 23 and single. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Hichiro Hayashida. His decorations include Purple Heart, ETO ribbon with one battle star, Combat Infantry Badge, Good Conduct Ribbon, and Asiatic-Pacific. -- Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru -- Palo Alto, California. 7/14/45

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The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.