Sent to an internment camp at age 12, he later joined the military and 'was so patriotic.'
Theodore "Ted" Y. Hirabayashi, 91, of Eden Prairie
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Air Supremacy Lost: An Imminent Danger for Ground Troops
“A powerful force picked him up, shook him, and threw him to the floor. Through the ringing in his ears, he could hear tent mates shouting to find out who was all right.” Enlisted radio repairman, Albert Villanueva, of the 933rd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion had just survived an enemy airstrike on Cho-do Island off the coast of Korea on the night of April 15th, 1953. Two of his friends, PFC Herbert Tucker and William Walsh, did not. These two Americans marked the last deaths inflicted on the U.S. military by enemy aircraft. Even though aerial combat had entered the jet age, North Kore...
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