Aye Ogata, Tom Uyeda and Bill Ishida in WWII bomb crater

Aye Ogata, Tom Uyeda and Bill Ishida in WWII bomb crater

Ishida, Bill.; Ogata, Aye.; Uyeda, Tom.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Bougainville, Solomon Islands.; Yankee Samurai (book).

Aye Ogata (right), Tom Uyeda of Sacramento (foreground) and Bill Ishida in a bomb crater on Bougainville Island late 1944 or 1945. Bougainville is part of the Solomon Island group. The bomb was dropped from a "Betty," a two-engine Japanese bomber. Ishida said, "It was a close call for all of us. You could hear that bomb whistle all the way down, and I hid my head between two coconut trees. I thought we were dead." The picture was used in the book "Yankee Samurai."

San Joaquin Valley Library System

1944-1945

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