Title:
Staff Sergeant Ben Kuroki of the United States Army Eighth Air Forces. Sgt. Kuroki has spent a year and a ...
Date:
1944-01-03
Subject:
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Photographs
Note:
Full title:Staff Sergeant Ben Kuroki of the United States Army Eighth Air Forces. Sgt. Kuroki has spent a year and a half
in the European war theatre. As a gunner on a Liberator, he participated in thirty one bombing missions over Germany, Nazi
occupied Europe and Africa. His squadron helped chase Rommel from Africa, assisted in the landings on Sicily and the Italian
mainland. He was a part of the first American bombing of Rome, and was on the all important Ploetsi oil field raid in Romania.
He holds the Distinguished Flying Cross with two Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters. Ben is
29, the son of a Nebraska farmer. The family lives at Hershey, Nebraska, where Ben formerly helped his father on the farm.<lb/>
Photographer: Parker, Tom<lb/> Denver, Colorado.
Local Call Number:
WRA no. -976
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Staff Sergeant Ben Kuroki of the United States Army Eighth Air Forces. Sgt. Kuroki has spent a year and a ...