WWII New Guinea veteran Colonel Steve Yamamoto portrait photograph

PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE PACIFIC BATTLEFIELDS OF WWII AND ONLINE WORLD WAR II RESOURCES | PHOTO OF ARMY VETERAN COLONEL STEVE YAMAMOTO

Steve Shizuma Yamamoto

Interrogator

Army / 1941-1961

After conducting or supervising an astounding 3100 interrogations in
New Guinea and serving as an
interpreter at the Tokyo war crimes trial, Colonel Yamamoto went on to a distinguished twenty year military career. Upon retiring from the Army he joined the Defense Intelligence Agency, where he worked for another twenty-five years.
He is a vital part of a large and
successful American family.

11 May 1991 / 1000 Hrs.

Photograph of WWII veteran Steve Shizuma Yamamoto

foreword by Stephen E. Ambrose | afterword by Senator John McCain