Deaths: Japanese Internee Served with Merrill's Marauders

ROY MATSUMOTO, 100.  Died April 21, 2014.

Born in California and educated in Hiroshima, Japan.  Interned in 1942 and volunteered for U.S. Army.

Served as Japanese language intelligence specialist with Merrill's Marauders in Burma.  Remained in the Army for twenty years.  In 1993, inducted into the U.S. Rangers Hall of Fame.  Received the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal along with other surviving Nisei World War II veterans in November 2011.