Today We Remember A Hero U.S. Army Private First Class Kaoru Moto


Today We Remember A Hero U.S. Army Private First Class Kaoru Moto

U.S. Army Private First Class Kaoru Moto of Hawaii was posthumously awarded the  Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on July 7, 1944, near Castellina, Italy.

Moto was born to Japanese immigrant parents and was a Nisei, which means he was a second-generation Japanese-American. 

He joined the Army in March 1941, ten months before the attack on Pearl Harbor. He volunteered to be a part of the all-Nisei 100th Infantry Battalion, mostly made up of Japanese-Americans from Hawaii and the mainland.

On July 7, 1944,  near Castellina Marittima, Italy, Moto single-handedly silenced two enemy machine gun positions while acting as a scout and then destroyed a third despite being severely wounded. For his actions on this day, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, which was posthumously upgraded to a Medal of Honor in 2000.

Moto left the Army while still a private first class. He died at age 75 and was buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii.


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