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One of the first three blind people to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro (along with John Opio and Lawrence Sserwambala). First African competitor at the Winter Paralympic Games. [12] [13] Takeichi Nishi – Colonel in the Imperial Japanese Army During World War II. Commander of the 26th Tank Regiment in the Battle of Iwo Jima. He was ...
Hohri became a civil rights and anti-war activist after World War II. In the late 1970s he became the chair of the National Coalition for Japanese American Redress (NCJAR), which brought a class action lawsuit against the US Government on March 16, 1983, asserting that it had unjustly incarcerated Japanese Americans during World War II. [8]
[1] [2] His remaining eyesight deteriorated, and he was completely blind by age 14. [2] His mother decided to move the family to California so tenBroek could attend a state school for the blind. [2] [1] In 1934, tenBroek graduated from the University of California with a degree in history. He graduated with the highest honors. [1]
She taught music to blind students and gave recitals in New York, [6] and was active on stage as an actress with the Lighthouse Players. [7] [8] [9] She moved to California in the 1930s, after visiting San Francisco to compete in a national piano competition. [10] She played piano in clubs and on radio during and after World War II.
A weathered American flag outside 66-year-old Napoleon Fuller's Menifee, California home connected him with a Vietnam veteran. That connection gave him a renewed sense of pride.
California during World War II was a major contributor to the World War II effort. California's long Pacific Ocean coastline provided the support needed for the Pacific War. California also supported the war in Europe. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, most of California's manufacturing was shifted to the war effort ...
Iain Macleod, MP 1950–70, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1970, who permanently limped due to a World War II wound and later ankylosing spondylitis. Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, MP 1924-29 and 1931–64, Prime Minister 1957–63 (had slight limp and weak right hand, affecting handwriting, by a series of wounds in World War I)
As Eline Øidvin approached the top of Mt. Langley, a 14,000-foot colossus in California's Eastern Sierra Nevada, she could feel the soft, sandy gravel beneath her feet.She could hear the ...