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 Nisei soldiers (ddr-densho-325-86)

Sumito Horiuchi (second from right)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-86/

img Nisei soldier (ddr-densho-325-97)

Sumito Horiuchi

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-97/

img Nisei soldiers (ddr-densho-325-112)

Written on front of photograph "To Horuichi [illegible]"

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-112/

img Nisei soldier (ddr-densho-325-120)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-120/

img Nisei soldier (ddr-densho-325-94)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-94/

img Nisei soldier (ddr-densho-325-80)

Sumito Horiuchi

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-80/

img Nisei men and women (ddr-densho-325-92)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-92/

img Nisei soldier (ddr-densho-325-91)

The front of the photograph is signed "To Hisa Sumito Horiuchi". "Taken in January" is written on the back.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-91/

img Nisei soldiers (ddr-densho-325-74)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-74/

img Nisei soldier (ddr-densho-325-76)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-76/

img Nisei soldiers (ddr-densho-325-95)

Sumito Horiuchi on left

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-95/

img Nisei soldier (ddr-densho-325-123)

Sumito Horiuchi at the top of Castle Rock just outside of Tule Lake concentration camp in 1943.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-123/

img Nisei soldier (ddr-densho-325-83)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-83/

img Nisei soldier (ddr-densho-325-117)

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img Nisei soldier (ddr-densho-325-119)

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img Nisei soldier (ddr-densho-325-343)

Written on photograph "To Hisa [illegible]"

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-343/

img Nisei soldiers (ddr-densho-325-87)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-87/

img Nisei soldier (ddr-densho-325-75)

Sumito Horiuchi

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-75/

img Nisei soldier (ddr-densho-325-90)

Sumito Horiuchi

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img Nisei soldier (ddr-densho-325-111)

Sumito Horiuchi

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-111/

img Nisei soldier (ddr-densho-325-103)

The front of the photograph is addressed "To Horiuchi, Takeshi [illegible]"

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-103/

doc Letter from Lorimer Rich (ddr-densho-335-11)

A letter written by Lorimer Rich and notarized by Frances M. Englander states that verifies the identity of George T. Rockrise. George at the time was trying to join the armed forces and realized that the legal name on his birth certificate did not match the name he had gone by his whole life. In this …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-335-11/