Shiroku "Whitey" Yamamoto
442nd Antitank Company

Wartime Duties

Shiroku
August 1944

As a jeep driver, Whitey is involved with reconnaissance. He helps determine the placement of antitank guns for each platoon.

He also delivers mail and hot meals to men in the battlefield.

Welders attach angled rods of iron to his jeep's front bumper to prevent decapitation from piano wire strung across a trail.