性別

Male

生年月日

1923-12-14

出生地

Ventura CA, U.S.A.

入隊した年

1944-5-15, Phoenix AZ

入隊のタイプ

Draftee

所属・部署

Army

兵役のタイプ

War

所属部隊のタイプ

Combat

所属部隊

442nd Regimental Combat Team, 2nd Battalion, Company G

特殊技能

Rifleman

最終目標

4 months: Basic Training, Camp Blanding, FL
19 months: France and Italy

除隊した年

Ft. Bliss TX

所属部隊の役割

April 1945: Make frontal attack on the Gothic Line which had withstood attacks for four or five months.

所属部隊での個人的役割

Member of rifle squad.

主な戦闘（交戦地帯へ従軍した場合）

Rhineland Campaign
Po Valley Campaign
North Apennines Campaign

勲章・褒章（個人又は所属部隊）

Bronze Star Medal
Good Conduct Medal
Combat Infantryman Badge
Sharpshooters Badge w/Rifle Bar
Distinguished Unit Badge w/1 Bronze Star
European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal
World War II Victory Medal

生活状況

Lived and slept in fox holes and abandoned buildings.
Seldom bathed.
C-rations were terrible.
Lucky if you got a couple day pass to the rest area.

軍隊にいる間、最も懐かしかったもの

Family in camp.

その他の情報

With the death of John, there is only one brother left of the four Takasugi brothers, Katsumi Leonard, George Joji, John Hiroshi and Knox Haruo, who served in Europe during World War II with the US Army's famed Japanese American unit, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.

The Takasugis came out of an internment camp in Gila, AZ to fight for flag and country as their parents, brothers and sisters remained in the camp, behind barbed wire and under the rifles of Army guards.

Leonard was the first Takasugi brother to die. He was killed in action on April 5, 1945, as his outfit, the 100th Battalion (part of the 442nd RCT), moved against the German's heavily fortified Gothic Line in northern Italy. Knox a resident of Ojai, died in 1996.

John, of Oxnard, retired in 1983 after 30 years of working as an electronic technician at the Point Mugu Pacific Missile Range and died at age 75 on May 21, 1999. George of Gardena is the last surviving family veteran of the 442nd.

John and George entered the Army in the summer of 1944 and Knox joined after them. Leonard, however, had been selected in the first peacetime draft in 1941 and was in the Army when Pearl Harbor was bombed. By 1945 all the brothers were in different companies of the 442nd, but they fought in the same battles. George was wounded the same day Leonard was killed.