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OBJECT ID

ddr-csujad-5-109 (CSUJAD Local ID: oki_01_39_001, CSUJAD Project ID: csudh_oki_0110)

PARENT COLLECTION

CSU Dominguez Hills Okine Collection

DESCRIPTION

A letter from Makoto Okine who is probably stationed in Italy as a U.S. military soldier to his father, Seiichi Okine in the Rohwer incarceration camp, Arkansas. He describes his vacation, staying in a hotel and eating at a restaurant. He states that he has not had a chance to sleep in a bed with sheets or eat restaurant meals for a year. He also assumes that his brother, Masao Okine, would be discharged and return from Japan to the U.S. in May or June, 1946. The letter is mailed via New York by U.S. Army Postal Service. Seiichi Okine records the arrival date of the letter, October 16, 1945, and the replied date , October 17, 1945. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: oki_01_39_001

CONTRIBUTOR

CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections

PREFERRED CITATION

[Title of item], Okine Collection, Courtesy of the Department of Archives and Special Collections. University Library. California State University, Dominguez Hills

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