PFC. Frank Harada Recently Awarded Distinguished Unit Badge

With the Fifth Army, Italy
Pfc. Frank T. Harada recently was awarded the distinguished unit badge for his part in three battles in which he fought as a member of the 2nd battalion of the 442nd Japanese American combat team.
The battalion was given the distinguished unit citation for out standing performance of duty in one battle on the Fifth army front in Italy and two battles in France. Each member is entitled, by virtue of the citation, to wear the blue and gold badge on the right breast.
In the first action cited, the battalion took a hill dominating important supply routes running through Alsace into Germany. Protected by dense minefields, the hill was defended by three German tanks and many self-propelled guns, mortars, machineguns and other automatic weapons and small arms. More than six enemy machineguns were silenced. An enemy command post and considerable quantities of German equipment were seized, 125 Germans were killed, and 20 were captured.