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Honor and Sacrifice: The Roy Matsumoto Story – tells the complex story of a Japanese immigrant family ripped apart by WWII. The Matsumoto family included five sons; two who fought for the Americans and three who fought for the Japanese. The eldest, Hiroshi (Roy), became a hero, fighting against the Japanese with Merrill’s Marauders, an American guerrilla unit in Burma. He was born near Los Angeles, educated in Japan, and became a hero when he used his Japanese language skills and military training to save his surrounded, starving battalion deep in the Burmese jungle. At the same time his parents and sisters were living in their family’s ancestral home, Hiroshima. The story is told by Roy’s daughter Karen ans she discovers her father’s work in military intelligence, kept secret for 50 years. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FILM
Panel discussion with Master Sgt Roy Matsumoto, daughter Karen Matsumoto, and Col. Tom Sakamoto, (RET) MIS First Class Graduate, Presidio, 1942.