Wear It Proudly: Letters by William Shinji Tsuchida

Wear It Proudly by Will Tsuchida offers an extraordinary first-hand account of war, identity, and loyalty through the letters of a Japanese American medic serving with the U.S. Seventh Army in Europe. Tsuchida, who enlisted the day after Pearl Harbor, joined Company I of the 71st Infantry—a unit so battered in its advance across southern France into Austria that it earned a presidential citation for valor. As a front-line aid man, Tsuchida lived with his hands in the blood of battle, tendin...