9
Walter Cronkite, United Press dispatch, published as “Nebraska Jap on Liberator is ‘fightingest,’” Lincoln (Nebraska) Evening State Journal, November 11, 1943, p. 1.
10
Walter Cronkite, United Press dispatch, published as “Nebraska Jap on Liberator is ‘fightingest,’” Lincoln (Nebraska) Evening State Journal, November 11, 1943, p. 3.
11
“D.F.C. Attests to His Deeds,” Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee, November 28, 1943, p. 23.
12
“Kuroki Has Close Call on His Last Trip to Germany,” North Platte (Nebraska) Telegraph, December 3, 1943, p. 1; “Hershey Boy Jap-American Flier For U.S.A.,” Morning World-Herald, Omaha, Nebraska, December 11, 1943, p. 2.
13
“Sgt. Kuroki Wants to Avenge Pearl Harbor,” North Platte (Nebraska) Daily Bulletin, December 21, 1943, pp. 1 and 7; United Press dispatch, “No Pleasure Jaunt is Raid Over Ploesti,” Columbus (Nebraska) Telegram, December 21, 1943, p. 4.
14
“Nebraska Notes—North Platte,” Omaha Morning World-Herald, December 23, 1943, p. 11.
15
“Japanese Y.P. to Honor Sgt. Kuroki,” North Platte Telegraph, December 30, 1943, p. 6.
16
The dispatches appeared in dozens of newspapers across the United States, including the following: Associated Press dispatch, “American-Born Jap Is Fighter,” Arizona Republic, January 4, 1944, p. 4; United Press dispatch, “Kuroki Hasn’t Yet Realized Ambition,” Columbus (Nebraska) Telegram, January 4, 1944; International News Service dispatch, “Nebraska-Born Japanese Hailed,” Omaha Morning-World Herald, January 4, 1944, p. 4; and “Sergeant Kuroki Is Hero but Still Very Dissatisfied,” Macon (Georgia) News, January 4, 1944, p. 2.
CHAPTER 36: MOST HONORABLE SON
1
See “Army Takes Over Six Bay Hotels,” Evening Vanguard (Venice, California), November 25, 1943, p. 1; “Army to Occupy Six Hostelries in Santa Monica,” San Bernardino County (California) Sun, November 26, 1943, p. 2; “Air Force Center Gives Bay Aides New Duties,” Los Angeles Times, January 2, 1944, p. C2; “Flyers’ Center Gets New Chief,” Los Angeles Times, January 15, 1944; “Army Takes Three More Santa Monica Hotels,” Los Angeles Times, January 19, 1944, p. A2; “Bay Leaguers Assist Redistribution Center,” Los Angeles Times, March 26, 1944, p. C4; “Air Wac Recruits Offered Redistribution Center Jobs,” Los Angeles Times, May 28, 1944, p. B2.
2
Edward Bates interview with Bill Kubota, undated, 1998 or 1999, Most Honorable Son documentary, unedited footage, Ben Kuroki Collection, KDN Films Archives.
3
Ibid.
4
Ibid.
5
“Ben Kuroki Heads for Crack at Japs,” Omaha Daily Journal-Stockman, January 19, 1944, p. 2.
6
Ibid.; also “Jap Gunner Returns with Air Medals,” Eugene (Oregon) Guard, January 20, 1944, p. 9.
7
“Network Tells Why Jap Gunner Barred from Air,” Los Angeles Times, January 27, 1944, p. 4.
8
“Broadcast Cancellation Bewilders U.S.-Jap Here,” Hollywood (California) Citizen-News, February 1, 1944, p. 9.
9
Ben Kuroki quoted in “Broadcast Cancellation Bewilders U.S.-Jap Here,” Hollywood Citizen-News, February 1, 1944, p. 9.
10
Ben Kuroki interview with Bill Kubota, August 26–27, 1998.
CHAPTER 37: RESIST THE DRAFT
1
Yoshito Kuromiya and Arthur A. Hansen, ed., Beyond the Betrayal: The Memoir of a World War II Japanese American Draft Resister of Conscience (Louisville, Colorado: University Press of Colorado, 2021), p. 40.
