Decorations register · Notice Nearby
Official U.S. Senate portrait, 2008 — work of the U.S. government
Daniel K. Inouye
1924–2012
Second Lieutenant (later Captain)
Company E, 442nd Regimental Combat Team; San Terenzo, Italy, April 21, 1945
Documented decorations
Purple Heart
Wounded in the Vosges and again at San Terenzo, where a grenade shattered his right arm. National Park Service and Army Historical Foundation accounts name the Purple Heart among the awards he held at discharge.
Public sources
Bronze Star Medal
Awarded for heroism in Italy before the April 21 action. Named by the National Park Service and the Army Historical Foundation as held at his 1947 discharge.
Public sources
Daniel Ken Inouye led a platoon of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team onto a ridge near San Terenzo, Italy, on April 21, 1945. The Medal of Honor citation — presented by President Clinton on June 21, 2000, after a review of Nisei Distinguished Service Crosses — is the public record of the machine-gun nests, the sniper wound, and the grenade that took his right arm.
Before that morning he already held a Bronze Star Medal and a Purple Heart from earlier fighting, including a wound in the Vosges. The National Park Service and the Army Historical Foundation name both awards among those he held when the Army discharged him as a captain in 1947. This page will not invent a Silver Star the official accounts do not list.
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