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img 442nd Infantry Regiment with civilians in Pisa area, Italy (ddr-densho-1007-26)

Caption on back

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-26/

doc The Newell Star, Vol. II, No. 24 (June 15, 1945) (ddr-densho-284-73)

Selected article titles: "4 C's May Ask for Change in Draft Classification" (p. 1), "New Service for Those Planning to Go Outside" (p. 2), "100th Infantry Returns from European Front" (p. 3), and "Japanese Movies: Two 35mm Films Scheduled June 18-22 at Auditorium" (p. 4). Page 5 is mislabeled as page 6.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-284-73/

img Pvt. Yoshihana leading Nazi prisoners (ddr-densho-37-2019)

Included annotation: F-1001.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-2019/

img Nisei soldiers (ddr-densho-37-339)

Original caption: The standards of Company A, B, C, and D of the 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regiment, 34th Division, composed of Americans of Japanese descent, are topped with flying battle streamers, awarded through a presidential citation, tied on by Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark, CG, U.S. Fifth Army. Rosignano Area, Italy, 7/27/44.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-339/

img Nisei soldier (ddr-densho-37-28)

Original caption: Pfc. Arthur Shinyama sprays a stream of machine gun fire from a thicket somewhere in Italy. Nazi prisoners taken by these troops could not believe their eyes.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-28/

img Japanese American pointing at Honor Roll sign (ddr-densho-37-748)

Original WRA caption: Fumi Onodera, 20, proudly points at the names of her 3 brothers, Kid, 26; Kaun, 24; and Satoru, 22, on the Honor Roll of Japanese-Americans serving in the U. S. Army from the Minidoka Relocation Center, Hunt, Idaho. The 3 brothers are training in a combat team at Camp Shelby, Mississippi with other …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-748/

img Nisei soldiers escorting captured Germans (ddr-densho-37-21)

Original caption: "German storm troopers surrender to rifleman of the 100th Infantry Battalion (Americans of Japanese ancestry), after a short but rather sharp exchange of fire. Fifth Army, Orciano area, Italy, July 15, 1944."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-21/

doc Presidential Citation Given to 100th Infantry Battalion & story on the Battle of Belvedere (ddr-densho-356-1038)

Text of the Presidential Citation given to the 100th Infantry Battalion and a story of the Battle of Belvedere published in Yank: The Army Weekly.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-1038/

doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Yoshito Shibata (ddr-densho-356-236)

Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Yoshito Shibata in which he talks about the press a Marine office gave about Nisei soldiers learning Japanese in Minnesota and using it in the Pacific theater, the announcement of the formation of 442nd/100th Battalion, a recent proposal to relocate Japanese Americans into Midwestern states in defense and agricultural jobs, …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-236/

doc Article "G.I. JapYank" (ddr-densho-356-1029)

Article titled: "G.I. JapYank" by Gene Casey. An interview with Mac Yazawa from the 100th Battalion. Published in Collier's and reprinted by the War Relocation Authority.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-1029/