Okubo, James K.

found: OCLC 36752253:(Okubo, James K.; Thesis (M.S.)--University of Detroit School of Dentistry, 1957)

found: United States. An Act to Authorize the Award of the Medal of Honor to Ed W. Freeman, James K. Okubo, and Andrew J. Smith, 2000, Public Law 106-223:t.p. (James K. Okubo) p. 1 (for service Oct. 28 and 29, and Nov. 4, 1944, at Foret Domaniale de Champ, near Biffontaine, France, during World War II; Army medic, medical detachment, 442nd Regimental Combat Team)

found: Phone call to Congressman Buyer's office, 8/31/2000(James K. Okubo, the medal recipient and Army medic, is from Detroit)

found: A celebration of hope and healing : saluting Washington medal of honor recipients, [2001?]:p. 5 (James Okubo; Medal of Honor recipient, June 21, 2000, for service in WWII); p. 14-15 (Technician Fifth Grade James K. Okubo; T/5 James Okubo; Jim Okubo; b. 1920, Anacortes, Wash.; Bellingham H.S. grad.; attended Western Wash. Univ.; family sent to Tule Lake concentration camp, Calif. 1942, then to Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyo.; family allowed to settle in Detroit, Mich. after 2-yr. incarceration; served as medic for 442nd RCT; after war joined family in Mich.; Wayne St. Univ. grad.; Ph.D. (dentistry, Univ. of Detroit); d. in car accident 1967; in late 2001 new medical & dental clinic at Fort Lewis, Wash. to be named for Okumbo)