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Officer Tells Of Bravery Oflt;iJap Americans In CBI TheaterCAMP McCOY, Wis. — (Special) —Another dramatic chapter in the heroic history of Japancse-Amer-ican or Nis. i soldiers in the American army was revealed this week here by Capt. Erie L. Stewart. 1637 Cpllax avenue, Benton Harbor, Mich., as he was discharged after 26 months in the CBI theater.Capt. Stewart was liaison officer in Burma between five Chinese divisions trained by Gen. “Vinegar’ Joe Stilwell, one British division and an American brigade, originally Merrill's Maurau-ders. He was al'O intelligence officer in the northern Burma headquarters. -“As a group, the morale and loyalty of the Nisei was the highest of any small group of soldiers 1 have ever seen,’ Capt. Stewart said. “These fellows — many of them with parents and families in U. S. relocation camps—put outevery last ounce of effort. Someof them worked themselves so hard I, they actually became physically' ill from exhaustion. They all had plenty of what it takes. I(:lt;Capt. Stewart trained 50 Niseis it and organized them .nto teams to 11 handle translation and interrogation. About half of the group had lived in Japan at one tune or another. the rest second generation Americans. They were of particular help in close fighting areas, calling out orders in Japanese to confuse the enemy.iiII]!So anxious were the Nisei to I help and to prove their loyalty that they often volunteered for dangerous patrols behind the enemy lines. Capt. Stewart cited the story of T. Sgt. Ken. Yasui who single-handedly captured a platoon of Japs dug in on an island in the river by Myitkyina. “All he said was that he was going to swim out to look around. We wouldn't have let him c go it we had known what he was up to,” recalled the captain.11::I
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La Crosse Tribune
La Crosse, Wisconsin, US
Fri, Nov 09, 1945
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