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Program of events in honor of World War II Medal of Honor recipients, June 21-22, 2000 (ddr-csujad-1-206)
A program for events in honor of World War II Medal of Honor recipients held in June 21-22, 2000. Lists 22 recipients, including names, titles, combat team names, and where and when they served. Includes mostly Japanese-American soldiers serving in the armed services of the United States. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese …
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Kay Sweeney Interview (ddr-one-7-8)
Japanese female. Born 1922 in Kagoshima, Japan. During World War II, served as a nurse with the Japanese army in Jakarta and Japan. After the war, moved to the United States and lived in San Francisco before eventually settling in Portland, Oregon.
(This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of …
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Weekly Press Review No. 6 (ddr-densho-156-318)
Original summary: Military service and Middle West employment program continued as chief news sources. Hawaiian Japanese have responded enthusiastically to Army enlistment program; no newspapers have published reports on resopnse in the continental United States. Considerable local resentment to resettlement in Middle West has apparently developed. Act to prohibit land ownership by Japanese in Arkansas was …
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American Concentration Camps Volumes 1-9 Collection (ddr-densho-372)
The documents printed here in these nine volumes trace and explicate not only the decision to submit a whole people to internal exile but also delineate the execution and modification of the policy during the course of the war. The documents were drawn largely from the archives of the government department chiefly responsible, the War department, …
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Reinstitution of selective service (ddr-csujad-55-758)
Booklet titled: Reinstitution of selective service: summary of the policies of the selective service system, War Department, and W. R. A. which affect Nisei. Contents include: Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Statement of principles; Selective service training and service act of 1940 as amended; Selective service policy; Induction of United States citizens …
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Roy Matsumoto Interview (ddr-densho-1001-40)
Nisei male. Born May 1, 1913, in Laguna, California. Lived in Japan from childhood through teenage years, before returning to the United States during high school. Incarcerated in the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas. Volunteered for the U.S. army in 1942, and was inducted in the Military Intelligence Service. Selected …
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American Concentration Camps VOLUME 8 1944 and 1945 Japanese of Hawaii (ddr-densho-372-8)
Volume 8 divides into five sections. Description about this volume reads directly from the book as follows: Part 1 features archival documents from 1944 and 1945 that depict the winding down of the relocation program. Part 2 features selected pages of a Congressional Record from February 23, 1944 and June 23, 1944 that resulted in the …