Ben Kuroki

(1919- ) born near Hershey, Lincoln County, lived in York and Lincoln. Journalist, was World War II air hero who was tailgunner on 58 missions, waged one-man crusade nationwide against racial discrimination after the war, served as reporter, editor, and publisher of newspapers in Nebraska, Michigan and California. Consult Time, February 7, 1944, pp. 76-77 and The Reader's Digest, January 1946, 15-17 and New York Times editorial, December 7, 1991, p. 22 and Nebraska State Historical Society Newsletter, Vol 44 (January 1992) 1-3.

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