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Founded the Manzanar 5500 organization, in which participants make an annual pilgrimage from Los Angeles to the former Manzanar camp site on foot."},{"id":"ddr-pc-18-19","model":"entity","index":"8 533/{'value': 747, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-18-19/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-pc-18-19/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-pc-18/ddr-pc-18-19-mezzanine-5a5675636f-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-pc-18/ddr-pc-18-19-mezzanine-5a5675636f-a.jpg"},"title":"The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 22 No. 19 (May 11, 1946)","description":"Selected article titles: \"Seventh Citation Given Nisei Combat Unit. 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During WWII it was used by Japan to ferry troops and prisoners. It was torpedoed in the South China Sea in 1944. 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Left camp to live with a foster mother in Los Angeles, eventually becoming a registered nurse."},{"id":"379","model":"narrator","index":"18 543/{'value': 747, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/379/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/379/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/nhenry.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/nhenry.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/379/interviews/"},"display_name":"Henry Nakano","bio":"Nisei male. Born June 11, 1927, in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in Los Angeles, where father ran a grocery store and then a small farm. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, removed to the Manzanar concentration camp, California. 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Lived in Arizona and Nevada after the war."},{"id":"ddr-csujad-52-24","model":"entity","index":"20 545/{'value': 747, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-52-24/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-csujad-52-24/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-csujad-52/ddr-csujad-52-24-mezzanine-b5d228668b-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-csujad-52/ddr-csujad-52-24-mezzanine-b5d228668b-a.jpg"},"title":"Laying water line at Manzanar","description":"Caption from reverse of image reads, \"LAYING WATER LINE FOR JAPANESE BOOM TOWN, A trench digger churned its way across the floor of Owens Valley March 19 to speed laying of a water supply line for the boom town for evacuated Japanese being erected at Manzanar under the direction of Lt. Gen. John L. Dewitt of the Western Defense Command. 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