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Honor Roll: World War II

September 11, 2025

Combat PFC Haruo Kawamoto PVT Albert G. Kawata PVT Satoshi Kaya PVT Stephen M. Kaya PFC Masaicbi C. Katsuda PFC Haruo Kawamoto PFC Toshio Kawamoto PFC Yutaka Kawamoto PVT Kikumatsu F. Kawanishi PVT Tetsuo Kawano PFC Yasuo Kawano PVT: Albert...

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Chief Master Sergeant Zandra O. Fox Biography

July 28, 2025

CCM Zandra Fox, HIANG Joined the Air National Guard in Feb 2000 and is currently serving as Command Senior Enlisted Leader, said her favorite thing about serving has been connecting with people that have become friends and mentors that have...

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Command Sergeant Major James K. Kahalehoe Jr.

July 2, 2025

Command Sergeant Major James K. Kahalehoe Jr. graduated from Roosevelt High School in June of 1969. After graduation he left Hawaii July 4th 1969, with the last of the all-Hawaii Company to be sent to Fort Ord, Calif. for 12 weeks...

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Colonel Perry M. Smoot

May 29, 2025

Born April 22nd 1882, Washington D.C. Died December 31st 1959 Wilmington, Delaware Educated in the Washington public schools in Columbian (now George Washington) University. He became a salesman and arrived in Hawaii in November 1912 to manage an automotive parts...

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Major John W. Short

May 29, 2025

Born 1864? Died October 2nd 1931 Honolulu Short arrived in Hawaii about the end of 1893. He enlisted as a full time member of the National Guard in January 1894. He was later employed in the custom house by the...

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Colonel William D. Potter

May 29, 2025

Born June 16th 1878, Manchester, NH Died not known Potter served in the US infantry during the Spanish American war and in the quartermaster corps from 1919 to 1920. He was a public School Teacher and Superintendent and a Businessman...

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Colonel Harry S. Hayward

May 29, 2025

Born September 5th 1882 Pomena, California Died July 7th 1938 Honolulu, Hawaii Hayward arrived in Hawaii in 1910 to work for the Hawaiian star, and after it amalgamated, he was employed by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin from 1912 to 1928. He...

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Colonel Willard Wayne

May 29, 2025

Wayne arrived in Hawaii in April 1913 to be City Editor Honolulu Star-Bulletin. He left this in 1915 to direct the Mid-Pacific Carnival. He was with the Territorial Department of Public Works from May 1915. In 1916 he became secretary...

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Brigadier General Samuel I. Johnson

May 29, 2025

Born December 4th 1873, Odessa Russia Died February 24th 1948, San Francisco, CA Johnson was born in Odessa Russia and educated in military schools. He served three years in the Cossack Calvary and one year in the Russian Navy. He...

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Colonel John W. Jones

May 29, 2025

Jones arrived in Hawaii about 1892 and is listed in the city directory 1892 -1893 as a shorthand reporter, Supreme Court. He continues to be listed in a court stenographer and reporter until 1910, when he is listed as Adjutant...

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Brigadier General John H. Soper

May 29, 2025

Brig. Gen. John H. Soper was born on November 17, 1846 in Plymouth, England. He moved to the United States as a child and was educated in Chicago at the Illinois Normal School. In pursuit of new opportunities, he arrived...

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