WASHINGTON — Yeiichi “Kelly†Kuwayama, a 442nd Regimental Combat Team combat medic, passed away June 29, the Japanese American Veterans Association said in a statement. He was 96. Kuwayama was born in 1918 in Manhattan in New York.  He entered the U.S. Army in 1941. Initially, he was assigned to a Coast Artillery National Guard unit […]
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