Most Honorable Son: a Japanese-American B-24 Gunner in World War II

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Most Honorable Son: a Japanese-American B-24 Gunner in World War II
Speaker: Sgt. Ben Kuroki

Sgt. Ben Kuroki was one of the few Nisei admitted to the Army Air Corps. He earned two Distinguished Flying Crosses and was acclaimed as the first Nisei war hero after flying 30 missions in Europe as a tailgunner and top turret gunner aboard a B-24.

The government sent him on a tour to Heart Mountain and two other camps in an effort to promote recruitment and help curb the growing draft resistance. He was later subpoenaed as a witness in the conspiracy trial of the Fair Play Committee leaders. Kuroki asked for duty in the Pacific and after being initially refused, became the only Nisei to serve in active combat with the Air Corps in the Pacific Theater, flying 28 more missions over Japan.

After the war he spoke to audiences nationwide and was the subject of a 1946 biography, "BOY FROM NEBRASKA." He went into journalism, becoming the first Japanese American editor of a general newspaper in Nebraska. He later edited newspapers in suburban Michigan and Southern California. He retired with his wife Shige to Southern California.

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[ThePhantom2K9]

This is why we have to support our troops. They're out there and risking their llives for the preservation of liberty. God Bless America and our allies. T-T

[unchino]

お前、頭悪いな。単細胞だな。

彼は日系アメリカ人なんだ。

[kazirog13]

Traitor, those americans dropped a nuclear bomb on two of your cities and killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people, children and women.

[jackkim3615]

@doubleestark you fuckin jap shut the eff up

u little ching chang chong killed bunch of innocent people such not only americans, but also koreans

[2channelgeek]

Yeah, He is a hero by American standard. But by Samurai standard, he is just another pussy. If his plane had been shot down then he had managed to survive, he should have had no right to bitch even if he had been lynched by indignant civillians.

[johndough08g]

God bless the troops

[ttiiyy]

@ThePhantom2K9 Amen

[doubleestark]

おい、てめえは、日本の裏切り者だ！その時代によくも日本に向か­って祖国に爆弾を落とすとは日本人にとって想像も出来ないことだ­。腹を切れ！