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  • Obit - Michio Terao, fought in Japanese-American war unit

    03/10/2003 8:44:28 AM PST · by NormsRevenge · 9 replies · 249+ views
    SJ Mercury News ^ | 3/10/03 | Betty Barnacle
    <p>In his life, Michio Terao had to climb a lot of mountains, emotional as well as physical, that touched him in a way perhaps only another Japanese-American could truly understand.</p> <p>On Aug. 6, 1945, he was recovering in a Colorado hospital from a serious knee wound suffered while serving with the all-Japanese U.S. 442nd Regiment in Europe when he heard America had dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.</p>