"My ability to speak Japanese was very limited," Gabaldon told NPR in 2000. Gabaldon learned Japanese growing up among Japanese Americans in East Los Angeles during the Depression. Two years after his death, a documentary questions why he wasn't awarded a Medal of Honor. His secret weapon: the diminutive Mexican American spoke Japanese. Guy Gabaldon single-handedly captured more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers - a feat never before accomplished in U.S. In 1944, during the bloody fighting for control of the Western Pacific island of Saipan, Marine Pvt.
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