Background
Hideo Kakehashi was born in 1920 in Los Angeles, California. He was incarcerated in Manzanar Concentration Camp and enlisted
in the Army. He joined the Military Intelligence Service (MIS) and completed Language School at Fort Snelling in Minessota
in May, 1945. He went overseas as part of General MacArthur's Occupation Forces. He married Mae M. Kakehashi. He passed away
in 2016.