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Also noted: Dr. Yutaka Yoshida, 104, was police officer in native Hawaii during Pearl Harbor attack

October 15, 2016 at 5:36AM
FILE - In this March 1, 2012 file photo, actress Patricia Barry arrives at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences 21st Annual Hall of Fame Gala in Beverly Hills, Calif. Barry, a mainstay of daytime television who appeared on “Days of Our Lives,” “Guiding Light” and “All My Children,” died at her home in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016. She was 93. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)
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Dr. Yutaka Yoshida, 104, a native Hawaiian and a son of Japanese immigrants, was working as a police officer in Honolulu when Japan bombed the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

The Territory of Hawaii was placed under martial law, and constitutional rights were ­suspended out of fear of a possible Japanese invasion, sabotage or espionage.

Yoshida, a retired surgeon who died on Sept. 13 in Honolulu, was 29 then and a nine-year police veteran facing a wrenching task that Sunday. He was assigned to accompany FBI agents as they rounded up prominent members of the Japanese community in Honolulu, among them a Buddhist priest.

"Even though it was his job, he still cannot forget how sad it was to point his gun at the tiny old Issei priest," wrote Masayo Duus, who interviewed Yoshida for "Unlikely Liberators," a history of Japanese-American ­soldiers in World War II originally published in 1983.

"It was a story he always told us," his daughter, Ann Yoshida, said in an interview Tuesday. "It was a moment of tremendous conflict for him."

Japanese aliens, as well as Japanese-Americans born in the United States, were removed from the West Coast as supposed security threats in the war's early stages and sent to remote internment camps. Yoshida had cousins in California who were interned there.

But he volunteered for Army service and in March 1943 joined the newly formed 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a Japanese-American unit remembered today for extraordinary bravery in fighting the Germans in Italy and France. He was wounded during the Italian campaign and, in separate engagements, received a Silver Star and a Bronze Star for bravery under fire.

Patricia Barry, 93, a prolific TV actress who appeared in more than 100 series and ­movies, died Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles.

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Barry's career began in the 1940s, when she won a Rita Hayworth look-alike contest; that led her to Hollywood and a contract with Warner Bros.

After three uncredited screen roles, she finally got a character name in "The Beast With Five Fingers," a 1947 horror film.

Barry, then billed as Patricia White, made more than 20 movies over the next four years. In 1950, she discovered the new medium of television, and vice versa.

Her first appearance was as a guest on "The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse," in an episode about Vincent van Gogh. Over the next decade, she appeared in series as different as "Playhouse 90" and "77 Sunset Strip."

In 1964, she appeared in three feature films: "Send Me No Flowers" (with Rock Hudson and Doris Day), "Kitten With a Whip" (with Ann-Margret) and "Dear Heart" (with Glenn Ford). That fall, she was cast as Jack Klugman's wife in a new sitcom, "Harris Against the World." When the series was canceled after 13 episodes, she returned to a busy schedule on series television.

Her soap-opera period began in 1972, when she appeared on "Days of Our Lives." She was later on "All My Children" (1981) and "Guiding Light" (1985-87).

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She may be best remembered for "Twilight Zone: The Movie" (1983), in which she was the terrified, understandably eager-to-please mother whose little boy can wish people out of existence — and does.

She had appeared on two episodes of the original "Twilight Zone" series as well. Her last film was "Delusional" (2014), a thriller.

Patricia Allen White was born on Nov. 16, 1922, in Davenport, Iowa, the daughter of a physician. She graduated from Stephens College in Missouri, where she studied theater with actress Maude Adams.

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