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Following the sudden death of Harriett Engelhardt, an American Red Cross worker in Germany, in 1946, Virgil and the members of the 522nd FAB pulled together $271.40 and sent the money to her parents. The Engelhardts used this money, along with money from Harriett's estate and other donations to establish the Harriett Engelhardt Memorial Collection at Black Mountain College, Harriett's alma mater. Following World War II, Virgil worked for several corporations as a research and development scientist developing patents."},{"id":"ddr-densho-1000-116","model":"entity","index":"22 672/{'value': 716, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-116/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1000-116/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-kjohn-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1000/denshovh-kjohn-01-a.jpg"},"title":"John Kanda Interview","description":"Nisei male. 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