THE HAWAI'I NISEI STORY
Americans of Japanese Ancestry During WWII

Shiroku "Whitey" Yamamoto
442nd Antitank Company

When Whitey returns to Honolulu, his foster father is principal at Leilehua High School on Oahu. Rather than going back to the island of Hawaii, he enrolls at Leilehua.

Due to their war service, veterans are granted school credits equivalent to a year of classes. Whitey graduates in June 1946.