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TI: And so Bob served with the 442 in combat, and let's go to your sister. It's unusual to hear about women serving in the military, but your oldest sister, you mentioned, was, I guess in the nursing corps?

FS: Yeah. She went from camp to Colorado Springs. And in camp, she was a nurse's aide, and from that she decided she wanted to go into nursing. She applied for nursing school there, finished school there, and someplace along the line, they were recruiting nurses for the services. So she joined, she never did go on active duty, but she went on various reserve duty things, so that was the extent of her service. But she did hold the rank of an army captain in the (army) reserves nurse corps.

TI: And did very many other Niseis do this? Again, I don't know of very many.

FS: I don't know. I know that, did you know the name Margaret Baba (Yasuda)?

TI: No, that doesn't ring a bell.

FS: Margaret and Betty trained together at nurse's school, but Betty took the commission from the army, I don't know that Margaret did. So the answer, I guess, is no, I don't know.

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