Young-Oak Kim
Military Person
1919 – 2005
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Who was Young-Oak Kim?
Colonel Young-Oak Kim, a highly-decorated U.S. Army combat veteran of World War II and the Korean War. He was a member of the U.S. 100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and a combat leader in Italy and France during World War II. He was awarded 19 medals, including the Distinguished Service Cross, two Silver Stars, two Bronze Stars, three Purple Hearts, a Bronze Medal of Military Valor, a Légion d'honneur, a Croix de guerre, and the Korean Taeguk Cordon of the Order of Military Merit. He died of cancer at the age of 86.
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