“THE 100TH, Seeds of Aloha” poster is ready for action. Designed by Steve Sue with photographs by Cliff Kimura, the poster features a photograph in the Vosges Mountains where Sébastien Roure found Robert Kurodaʻs Farrington High School ring, 80 years after Kuroda lost it.
Kuroda also lost his life in those mountains when he single-handedly attacked two enemy machine gun emplacements before being killed by a sniper. For these actions, he was posthumously awarded the Army’s second-highest decoration, the Distinguished Service Cross. In a ceremony at the White House on June 21, 2000, his surviving family was presented an upgraded Medal of Honor by President Bill Clinton.
Return of the Ring
Sébastien took great pains to find Kurodaʻs family in Hawaiʻi so that he could return the ring. See the full story in our upcoming film, THE 100TH, Seeds of Aloha.
100th Bn. Soldiers Depicted
During filming, the presence of the Nisei soldiers was often felt. Imagined or not, it made featuring them on the poster seem natural. The image used is a US Army Signal Corp. photograph of 100th soldiers marching on a roadway a few miles outside of Rome. The image was also used on the August 1976 cover of Puka-Puka Parade, the 100th Infantry Battalion Veteranʻs monthly newsletter where the caption reads “Men of the 100th Infantry Battalion, moving up to the front, on a dusty road in the Velletri Area, Italy. 28, May 1944.” This is a position just before the towns of Lanuvio and Genzano, which were the towns that opened the way to Rome.
