Gender

Male

Birth date

1919-05-27

Place of birth

Seal Beach CA, USA

Inducted

1940-12-19, Ft. Sam Houston TX

Enlistment type

Volunteer

Service branch

Army

Service type

War

Unit type

Combat/sup

Units served

Army Air Corp 442nd Regimental Combat Team, 2nd Battalion, Hqs Co

Military specialty

Infantryman Mechanic

Stationed

USA: IL; Camp Crowder, MO; Ft. Crook, NE; Camp Shelby, MS Other Countries: Africa; Italy; France

Unit responsibility

Infantry

Personal responsibility

Infantryman Auto mechanic

Awards, medals, citations (individual or unit)

Four bronze stars. One bronze star states ".....With diligence, perseverance, untiring effort, and with disregard for personal safety ...... performed his duties in a superior manner. A large number of the battalion's vehicles were constantly kept in excellent operating condition and available on call to the frontline elements because of the skill and untiring conscientiousness of Technician Fourth Grade Tanamachi....."

Additional information

Residence: Dayton, OH. Goro enlisted in the Army Air Corps and was sent to Technical School in Illinois and graduated as an aircraft mechanic in 1941. The day after Pearl Harbor, December 1941, he was removed from duty with the Army Air Corps and worked at the Post Exchange until he was sent to the Army at Camp Crowder, MO. He completed motor mechanic school in Fort Crook, NE in 1942 and achieved a Technician Fifth Grade.When the 442nd Infantry was approved in February 1943, he was sent to Camp Shelby, MS as part of the original cadre. One of the buddies owned a car and a group of four soldiers drove to Camp Shelby. Fortunately, Goro was a skilled motor mechanic and when the car broke down in route, he was able to repair it quickly. While at Camp Shelby, he also completed the second echelon mechanics course. From Camp Shelby he went to New York, flew to Africa and then on to Italy and France for combat. On October 29, 1944 he was called to Biffontaine, France to identify the body of his brother Saburo who was killed in action