"Los Angeles, California"@en . . . . . . . . . . . "20"^^ . "25"^^ . "Bronze Star ribbon.svg"@en . . . . . . "Los Angeles, California"@en . "1919-01-29"^^ . . "Colonel Young-Oak Kim (Korean: \uAE40\uC601\uC625; Hanja: \u91D1\u6C38\u7389; RR: Gim Yeong-ok, M-R: Kim Y\u014Fng-ok, 1919 \u2013 December 29, 2005), 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 L\u00E9gion d'honneur, a Croix de guerre, and (posthumously) the Korean Taeguk Cordon of the Order of Military Merit. He died of cancer at the age of 86."@en . . . "Legion Honneur Officier ribbon.svg"@en . . "Colonel Young-Oak Kim (Korean: \uAE40\uC601\uC625; Hanja: \u91D1\u6C38\u7389; RR: Gim Yeong-ok, M-R: Kim Y\u014Fng-ok, 1919 \u2013 December 29, 2005), 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 L\u00E9gion d'honneur, a Croix de guerre, and (posthumously) the Korean Taeguk Cordon of the Order of Military Merit. He died of cancer at the age of 86."@en . . . . "Place of burial"@en . . . . . . "2005-12-29"^^ . "Kim in his \"dress blue\" uniform as a lieutenant colonel in 1961."@en . . . . . "80"^^ . "Legion of Merit ribbon.svg"@en . . "1941"^^ . . . . "Valor militare bronze medal BAR.svg"@en . "1"^^ . . . "1950"^^ . "160"^^ . "oak"@en . "Taeguk Cordon Medal.png"@en . "0"^^ . "Young-Oak Kim"@en . "1"^^ . "2"^^ . "Purple Heart BAR.svg"@en . "Young-Oak Kim"@en . . "Ruban de la croix de guerre 1939-1945.PNG"@en . . "Korean American male wearing a United States Army Dress Blue uniform and eyeglasses"@en . . "US-DSC-RIBBON.png"@en . "Silver Star ribbon-3d.svg"@en . .