Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Corporal

Unit:

Battery B, 522nd Field Artillery Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, 36th Infantry Division "Arrowhead", U.S. Army

Awarded on:

February 16th, 1945

Yoneo Takamoto, 39077314, Corporal, FA, Battery “B”, *** Field Artillery Battalion, for gallantry in action near La Houssiere, France, on 5 November 1944. Assigned the task of attacking and clearing a strongly held ridge, the company with which Corporal Takamoto was serving as assistant forward observer advanced against the enemy through heavy mortar, artillery, and machine gun fire. Upon observing that the forward observer and assistant radio operator had been wounded he left his place of comparative safety and determinedly worked his way to within 60 yards of the enemy, to evacuate the more seriously wounded of the two men. He then assumed command of the artillery forward observer party and continued to deliver artillery support in the advance of the infantry under continuous and concentrated hostile fire, until seriously wounded the following morning. Entered the service from Loomis, California.

Headquarters, 6th Army Group, U.S. Army, General Orders No. 9 (16 February 1945).