Full title:Technical Sergeant Ben Kuroki of the United States Army Eighth Air Force. Sgt. Kuroki has spent a year and a half in the European war theatre. As gunner on a Liberator, he participated in thirty-one bombing missions over Germany, Nazi occupied Europe and Africa. His squadron helped chase Rommel from Africa, assisted in the landing on Sicily and the Italian mainland. He was a part of the first American bombing of Rome, and was on the all important Ploetsi oil field raid in Rumania. He holds the Distinguished Flying Cross with two Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters. Ben is 29, the son of a Nebraska farmer. The family lives at Hershey, Nebraska, where Ben formerly helped his father on the farm. Kuroki has appeared on the Ginny Simms radio program, and is now touring the country lecturing at relocation centers, civic clubs and elsewhere in the interests of his fellow Americans of Japanese ancestry.<lb /> Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru<lb /> Denver, Colorado. Part of: War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement
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