Shiroku "Whitey" Yamamoto
442nd Antitank Company
442nd Antitank Company
Life After the War
After four years on the mainland, Whitey returns to Hawaii. He marries Amy Yamamoto, a Laupahoehoe schoolmate, with whom he shared a wartime correspondence.
He works as an aircraft instrument technician at Hickam Airfield.
Seven years later, Lockheed Aircraft Company employs Whitey; he stays with the firm until its local facility closes. Whitey then accepts a position at Aloha Airlines where he retires, 22 years later.
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