• Parallel lives: George Nakamura (second from left in bottom row) and Yukio Kawamoto (far right in back row) first met in 1943 at an army camp in Minnesota, where they were sent for Japanese language training even though both were bilingual. | GEORGE NAKAMURA/AP
    Parallel lives: George Nakamura (second from left in bottom row) and Yukio Kawamoto (far right in back row) first met in 1943 at an army camp in Minnesota, where they were sent for Japanese language training even though both were bilingual. | GEORGE NAKAMURA/AP
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The lives of George Nakamura and Yukio Kawamoto have followed amazingly parallel paths.

They were born two weeks apart in California in 1919, both joined the U.S. Army early in 1942 during World War II, and both were assigned to military intelligence and served in the South Pacific.

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