Hawaiian Nisei veteran presenting lei

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Seattle Nisei Veterans Committee Collection

Original caption: Colonel Joseph P. Sullivan, Sixth Army Quartermaster, represents General Mark W. Clark, CG, Sixth Army, at a ceremony where Sam Kinoshita, Nisei veteran of the 442nd Combat Team, holds Hawaiian lei of 1,100 individual flowers, which is on route to Paris to be placed on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arch of Triumph on Memorial Day, in honor of Hawaii's war dead. The flowers are being flown under the sponsorship of the Nisei veterans in Hawaii. San Francisco, Calif. 27 May 48.

May 27, 1948

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Courtesy of the Seattle Nisei Veterans Committee and the U.S. Army

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