U.S. Soldiers Of Japanese Ancestry Visit Italian City They Helped Liberate -- U.S. soldiers of Japanese ancestory who are fighting with the Allied Fifth Amy in Italy visit one of the Italian towns they helped to liberate. Private John Masaki (left foreground) of Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, looks on while Private Masakichi Guchi Tuunens of Maui, Hawaiian Islands, buys religious postcards from an Italian Catholic priest (center). Other U.S. soldiers of Japanese descent are gathered around the priest. January 16, 1944.