Military service

The story of Japanese Americans in the military during World War II is complex and in many ways ironic. It is a story of mistrust by the very country for which these soldiers placed themselves in harms' way. Many were drafted directly out of the camps and fought for democracy abroad while their parents and families were incarcerated by their own government.

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img Man in military uniform stands in a wooded area (ddr-densho-404-387)

A man in military uniform stands in a wooded area looking down at an object in his hands, possibly a camera.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-404-387/

img Man in military uniform (ddr-densho-404-361)

Caption written in Japanese next to photograph.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-404-361/

img Man in military uniform (ddr-densho-404-368)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-404-368/

img Bride and groom (ddr-densho-328-581)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-328-581/

img Friends in Pacific Grove (ddr-densho-328-88)

Caption in album: "Taken at Pacific Grove / Seichi, Shig, Richard."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-328-88/

img Nisei soldier (ddr-densho-325-133)

Sumito Horiuchi at Camp Roberts in 1941

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-133/

img Nisei soldier (ddr-densho-325-124)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-124/

img Nisei soldier (ddr-densho-325-79)

Sumito Horiuchi

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-79/

img Nisei soldier with Nisei woman and child (ddr-densho-325-100)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-100/

img Nisei soldier (ddr-densho-325-110)

Sumito Horiuchi

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-110/

img Nisei riding bicycles (ddr-densho-325-105)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-105/

img Nisei soldier (ddr-densho-325-81)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-81/

img Nisei soldiers (ddr-densho-325-98)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-98/

img Nisei soldier (ddr-densho-325-115)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-115/

img Nisei soldiers (ddr-densho-325-77)

Sumito Horiuchi first row far right

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-77/

img Nisei soldier (ddr-densho-325-113)

Sumito Horiuchi

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-113/

img Nisei soldier (ddr-densho-325-82)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-82/

img Kim Kawashima posing with a bayonet (ddr-densho-328-58)

Caption in album: "Kim / Odgen / May 1946."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-328-58/

img A couple at Gila River (ddr-densho-328-305)

Caption in album: "Ruth and Tsut[?] / Gila Camp Arkansas / 1944."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-328-305/

doc Photograph album dedicated to Bussei soldiers in World War II (ddr-densho-328-535)

A photograph album created by the Ogden Y.B.A. (Young Buddhists Association) chapter and dedicated to the Bussei veterans who fought in World War II.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-328-535/

img Two men at the beach (ddr-densho-338-204)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-338-204/

doc Selective Service Registration (ddr-densho-355-34)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-355-34/

doc Certificate of appreciation awarded to Takami Hibiya (ddr-densho-381-132)

A certificate of appreciation for Takami Hibiya's service with the United States strategic bombing survey in the Pacific Theater of Operations.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-381-132/

doc Gila News-Courier, Armistice Day Supplement (ddr-densho-382-11)

Lists of dead, wounded and serving Japanese Americans

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-382-11/

doc Selective Service registration card for Tsunezo Tokuda (ddr-densho-383-522)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-383-522/