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![Letter from Masao Okine to [Hatsuno] Hotty Okine, April 24, 1945 (ddr-csujad-5-76)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/cf/f8/cff85d2dfb10970d55288e43d81b4958.jpg)
![Memo from Co-ordinating Committee to Chief of Police Schmidt [Willard E. Schmidt], February 3, 1944 (ddr-csujad-2-72)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/37/e5/37e5432bb42bed9c0251bbeefdd22a5c.jpg)
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Daniel Inouye Interview (ddr-janm-13-5)
Nisei male. Born September 7, 1924, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Served in the all-volunteer, all-Nisei, 442nd Regimental Combat Team during World War II, lost his right arm in action and earned the Distinguished Service Cross. Following the war, became an attorney, then a six-term senator for Hawaii. Sat on the Select Committee on Intelligence, Select Committee on …
Narrator Tsuguo "Ike" Ikeda
Nisei male. Born August 15, 1924, in Portland, Oregon. Incarcerated at the North Portland Assembly Center and Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Kept a diary beginning December, 1941, and through incarceration. Beginning as a teenager, was exceptionally active as a volunteer leader, first within a Japanese American church in Portland, later in camp with Federated Christian Church, …
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Tulean Dispatch Vol. 4 No. 59 (January 28, 1943) (ddr-densho-65-145)
Selected article titles: "Annual Co-op Membership Meeting Sat." (p. 1), "'Gay Desperado' Is Next Film" (p. 1), "$84 is Donated to Junior Red Cross" (p. 1), "Block Depots Are Opened" (p. 1), "College Level Registration: Psychology Class Sign-up is Friday" (p. 1), "National Confab Minutes: JACL Meeting is Next Thurs." (p. 1), "First Aid Class Will …
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Granada, Colo (ddr-csujad-39-2)
Directory of the Granada (Amache) incarceration camp created at or near the end of World War II. The table of contents in the book include: Forward by Proj. [Project] Dir. [Director] And Sec. [Secretary] Heads, Introduction, Community Council, Block Managers, Amache Co-Cop Pioneer Staff, Drs. Koen Kwai Red Cross Rec. Hosp. History of the Granada Relocation …
![Letter from Masao Okine to [Hatsuno] Hotty Okine, April 24, 1945 (ddr-csujad-5-76)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/f0/c7/f0c709c382a534a1b09d37aa47ea7924.jpg)
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Letter from Masao Okine to [Hatsuno] Hotty Okine, April 24, 1945 (ddr-csujad-5-76)
A letter from Masao Okine in Fort Meade, Maryland, to his sister, Hatsuno Hotty Okine in the Rohwer incarceration camp, Arkansas. He encloses a dependency allotment form 620 in the letter and instructs Hatsuno to fill it out and talk to the Red Cross for assistance. He also asks her to send him a letter and …
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Basic training (ddr-densho-114-178)
Original caption: Camp Shelby, Mississippi. Japanese-American Combat Team. At Camp Shelby, Miss., Americans of Japanese ancestry from California, Hawaii and other areas are undergoing intensive training as a Army Combat team. One group of Japanese-Americans has already gone and seen action in the Mediterranean Theatre. These pictures show some of the phases of the training of …
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Minidoka Irrigator Vol. III No. 1 (February 27, 1943) (ddr-densho-119-172)
Selected article titles: "Plans Pushed to Establish Red Cross Chapter Here. Membership Fund Drive Proposed" (p. 1), "New Irrigator Means Progress" (p. 1), "Army Recruiting Team to Leave Early Next Week" (p. 1), "177 Former Bainbridge People Here" (p. 1), "Registration of Residents Completed in Center. Almost 7,000 Over 17 Years of Age Interviewed During Two …
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Manzanar Free Press Vol. III No. 33 (April 24, 1943) (ddr-densho-125-125)
Selected article titles: "Pox is Increasing" (p. 1), "Progress Made on Resettlement Claims WRA Director. Myer Expresses Fervent Hopes for Residents' Future Lives" (p. 1), "National Week for Boys and Girls Starts Today. Fourfold Purpose to Develop Potentialities of Youngsters" (p. 1), "Maritime Union Offers Work to Nisei Seamen" (p. 1), "Evacuees May Start Enterprise to …
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Manzanar Free Press Vol. III No. 11 (February 6, 1943) (ddr-densho-125-101)
Selected article titles: "Bruce Clears Confusion Co-op Rebates" (p. 1), "Many Apply for Stored Property" (p. 1), "Adventure-Romance Show Coming Here" (p. 1), "Beet Crew Augmented by Two New Additions. Selection of Representatives to Inspect Beet Fields Due Soon" (p. 1), "Brothers Held for Resisting FBI Men" (p. 1), "Activity Finds Manzanar Red Cross Busy" (p. …
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U.S. Department of Justice Alien Enemy Questionnaire page 24 of 26. (ddr-one-5-146)
Photocopy of a declassified questionnaire used to determine if the person named is to be considered an enemy alien. This page covers questions 98b - 102b of 111. Koyama continues to answer "No" to all questions regarding his or family involvement in foreign governments or their military. He also states that he has never aided an …
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Manuel L. Quezon riding in a parade car (ddr-njpa-1-1438)
Caption on reverse: "500,000 marchers demonstrate America's fighting spirit in nation's greatest parade. The United States of American flung down its gauntlet to the Axis with a grim, fighting 'New York at War' parade which outstripped any spectacle that famous city of spectacles has ever staged. It was a gigantic procession in which a cross section …
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Tulean Dispatch Vol. 4 No. 91 (March 10, 1943) (ddr-densho-65-175)
Selected article titles: "Hostel Will Take Resettlers to House Evacuees Job Seeking in East: Public Meeting Tonight to Present Project" (p. 1), "Minidoka Leads 5 Camps in Army Volunteers" (p. 1), "Granada Red Cross Drive" (p. 1), "6608 to be Used For Alien Registration" (p. 1), "Friends Group Advises All Citizens to Register" (p. 1), "Thurs. …
![Memo from Co-ordinating Committee to Chief of Police Schmidt [Willard E. Schmidt], February 3, 1944 (ddr-csujad-2-72)](https://ddr.densho.org/media/cache/c0/d6/c0d6ee3625e5418d34691accd0fb6dfb.jpg)
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Memo from Co-ordinating Committee to Chief of Police Schmidt [Willard E. Schmidt], February 3, 1944 (ddr-csujad-2-72)
Calls for special meeting of the Project Director, Advisory Council, and Co-ordinating Committee to discuss Committee recommendations, and refers to four attached memoranda, each from Co-ordinating Committee 1608-A to R. [Raymond] R. Best, Project Director, dated February 2, 1944 and written by Byron Akitsuki, Executive Secretary. Subjects of the memoranda are: Receipt of Red Cross Gift …
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Poston hi-light (ddr-csujad-55-1838)
Album created by students in Mrs. Courage's Junior Core Class at Poston incarceration camp. Includes introduction, facts about Poston, vital statistics, community council, school code, attendance rules and procedures, community enterprise, home life and block life, first sand storm, Dust of Poston (poem), Mom, Pop, and Me (poem), Red Cross, county fair, Night in Poston (poem), …
Narrator Mitsuye May Yamada
Female, child of Issei parents. Born July 5, 1923, in Fukuoka, Japan while her mother and two older Nisei brothers visited relatives. Named Mitsuye Mei Yasutake at birth. From age 3, grew up in Seattle, WA. Father employed by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service as interpreter for twenty years, until separated from family on December …
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Typed and notarized letter from Teru Koyama to Edward J. Ennis, Director, Enemy Alien Control Unit. Page 2 of 13. (ddr-one-5-229)
Photocopy of a typed letter from Teru Koyama to Edward J. Ennis concerning the rehearing of Keizaburo Koyama's case. On the second page, Teru writes about how long she thought about writing this letter and only did so after receiving encouragement and permission to do so from Washington, D.C. She addresses the two reasons why her …
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Virgil W. Westdale Interview (ddr-densho-1000-280)
Male of Japanese and European ancestry. Born July 8, 1918, in Millersburg, Indiana. Grew up on family farms in Indiana and Michigan. Became a licensed pilot, and, during World War II, volunteered for the War Training Service as a flight instructor. Reassigned to the 442nd Regimental Combat Team as part of the Fire Direction Center. Split …
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Tosh Yasutake Interview Segment 31 (ddr-densho-1000-138-31)
Pursuing a cross country relationship, a unique wedding experience
William Toshio Yasutake was interviewed together with his sister Mitsuye (Yasutake) Yamada and surviving brother, Joseph Yasutake, in group sessions on October 8-9, 2002. He was interviewed individually on November 14, 2002.
Before being contacted by Densho, the Yasutake siblings had planned to conduct their own family …
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Daniel Inouye Interview (ddr-densho-1000-28)
Nisei male. Born September 7, 1924, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Served in the all-volunteer, all-Nisei, 442nd Regimental Combat Team during World War II, lost his right arm in action and earned the Distinguished Service Cross. Following the war, became an attorney, then a six-term senator for Hawaii. Sat on the Select Committee on Intelligence, Select Committee on …
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Portland Rose Festival Parade Float- "Catholic Organizations Dove of Peace" (ddr-one-1-493)
Color slide of the Catholic Organizations Dove of Peace float driving down SW Third Ave in front of a large crowd gathered outside a Signal gas station and San Francisco Tailor, behind the Signal gas station is the old Multnomah Hotel in the Portland Rose Festival Parade. On the float sit three visible women dressed in …
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Minidoka Irrigator Vol. III No. 2 (March 6, 1943) (ddr-densho-119-30)
Selected article titles: "Red Cross Fund Drive Starts Mon. Sumida Announces Plans to Canvass Entire Project" (p. 1), "WRA Staff Here Backs Bond Sale 100 Per Cent" (p. 1), "Work to Start on Coal Pits; Stafford Will Lead Shovel Crew" (p. 1), "Schmoe Arrives, Accompanied by G. Hirabayashi" (p. 1), "Male Registrants May Make Changes" (p. …
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Staff Sergeant Sylvester F. Dudek receiving the Polish Virtuti Militari award (ddr-njpa-1-178)
Caption on reverse: "Poles Decorate U.S. Flyer. Staff Sergeant Sylvester F. Dudek (right), the only enlisted man in the American forces to hold decorations from three nations, receives another citation, the Virtuti Militari, Poland's highest military award, from Air Vice Marshal Mateusz Izycki, Inspector General of the Polish Air Forces, for 'outstanding gallantry in action over …
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Newspaper clipping regarding Charles Lindbergh (ddr-njpa-1-834)
Caption on front [translation]: "Person of the Day: Lindbergh. Colonel Charles Lindbergh recently returned to America and his important post at the Department of the Army after spending about three and a half years observing the European air world. He has also stated that 'American air power is inferior to that of Germany.'
Lindbergh left his …
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Redress: An Oral History of the Office of Redress Administration (ddr-densho-1020-13)
In 1988, Congress passed and President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act, a historic piece of legislation that sought, for the first time, to provide a measure of justice to Japanese Americans nearly 40 years after their incarceration during World War II. The Japanese American Redress program that resulted is a little-known success story of …
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Tsuguo "Ike" Ikeda Interview I (ddr-densho-1000-123)
Nisei male. Born August 15, 1924, in Portland, Oregon. Incarcerated at the North Portland Assembly Center and Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Kept a diary beginning December, 1941, and through incarceration. Beginning as a teenager, was exceptionally active as a volunteer leader, first within a Japanese American church in Portland, later in camp with Federated Christian Church, …