Robert Izumi 101 Airborne Veteran about his life in service

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An Andreas van der Schaaf Special Report about 101st Airborne soldier 'Bob' Izumi -alive and kicking today at 92! He Visited 'The Netherlands & Het Gooi Bevrijd ! in celebration of the liberation days in 2015 and will come again in May 2016! He his wife and his daughter will be guests of honor during the so called 'Liberation Week'. Robert Izumi has been a remarkable soldier. As a boy from original Japanese parents his family was put in a detention camp after Pearl Harbor. "we were regarded aliens". Nevertheless he enlisted (almost eighteen) for the army in 1944 and was almost immediately send to Normandy were he arrived June 7th. In September that year he was placed in the 506th (101st Airborne division 'G Company') and joined forces with E Company (as D & I company) in December 1944 in Bastogne. Via Foy & Hagenau he moved into the south of Germany. After that WWII he stayed in the army and was with missions in Korea and Vietnam (where he got contaminated by 'Agent Orange'). Actually he stayed for 60 years in service ! before really retiring in 2007! Born in 1925 he also sat next to Marlilyn Monroe at Emerson Junior High in Beverly Hills. President Obama handed him the 'Medal of Honour'.In Holland this year he also met with 'old buddy's' Gene Gailbreath and Jim 'Pee Wee' Martin who received from the Dutch Ministry of Defense the so called 'Orange Laneyard', 70 years after their 'Operation Market Garden' activities.