Hiroshi Miyamura, Medal of Honor Winner in Korean War, Dies at 97
Hiroshi Miyamura, a former Army corporal who killed at least 50 Chinese Communist troops in a firefight near Seoul during the Korean War before being taken prisoner, and who, while captive, became the first living Japanese American to be awarded the Medal of Honor, died on Tuesday at his home in Phoenix. He was 97.
His death, which was announced by the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, leaves Col. Ralph Puckett Jr., 95, a former Army Ranger, as the last surviving recipient of the medal for gallantry in Korea.
Mr. Miyamura was drafted in 1944 and assigned to the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the Japanese American unit that compiled a storied World War II combat record in Europe while people of Japanese heritage on the West Coast were placed under armed guard at desolate inland internment camps, feared as security risks, which they were not.
By the time Mr. Miyamura was sent overseas after stateside training, the German surrender was only days away.
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