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Home used by the 442nd radio section (ddr-densho-22-43)
Caption in album: "This house we had the radion section in the second floor. A farm town where we had a position. The home we used as it is the most unlikely target the retreating German Army artillery will fire upon."
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Go For Broke photograph album (ddr-densho-22-17)
Clarence Matsumura's Go For Broke photograph album.
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Picking fruit in a tree (ddr-densho-22-32)
Caption in album: "As spring came and summer and leaves bloomed on trees we waited and saw some trees later bear fruit. This is the only kind of fresh fruit we ever got during the war. For fresh vegetables we traded cigarettes with some German farmer. [?] are made vegetable stew or broth without meat."
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Volunteers for the Military Intelligence Service (ddr-densho-22-77)
Caption in album: "Volunteers please / Just prior to V-J day came a survey of Volunteers was made for the Camp Savage (later Fort Snelling) language school for men to ship to go to school and on to Japan to fight. Here the two above photos show as the volunteers were made ready to leave for …
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442nd Regimental Combat Team headquarters (ddr-densho-22-23)
Caption in album: "442nd Combat team H[?]."
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Clarence Matusmura with German girls (ddr-densho-22-72)
Caption in album: "During the last of the war it was still against regulations for fraternization but here during my off guard time I sat showing these young German girls a Life magazine."
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Ice skating at an American Red Cross Club (ddr-densho-22-55)
Caption in album: "American Red Cross Clubs found at any large city of any U.S. occupied zones or Allied territory was a haven of rest for the tired G.I. as well as a place of rest recreation and fun. Free doughnuts and coffee. Cokes 1/2 mark, snack bars, ping pong. Music and American fun."
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522nd Field Artillery Battalion soldiers departing (ddr-densho-22-66)
Caption in album: "522nd FA Bn. Donauworth / As all good things must, end came by the point system the old timers made a departure for a well deserved home and a discharge. The new reinforcements and all the law pointers were."
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522nd Field Artillery Battalion soldiers looking out from the interior of the Eagle's Nest / Kehlsteinhaus (ddr-densho-22-133)
Soldiers of the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion posing at Hitler's retreat near Berchtesgaden, known as the Eagle's Nest in English and Kehlsteinhaus in German.
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Lt. Col. Baya M. Harrison (ddr-densho-22-27)
Caption in album: "LT. Col. Baya M. Harrison / A practicing lawyer in civilian life. / 522md Bn C.O."
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Ice skating at an American Red Cross Club (ddr-densho-22-56)
Caption in album: "American Red Cross Clubs found at any large city of any U.S. occupied zones or Allied territory was a haven of rest for the tired G.I. as well as a place of rest recreation and fun. Free doughnuts and coffee. Cokes 1/2 mark, snack bars, ping pong. Music and American fun."
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442nd Regimental Combat Team plaque (ddr-densho-22-28)
Caption in album: "This plaque was presented to the 442nd for their rescue of the Lost Battalion of World War II."
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442nd soldiers cooking C rations (ddr-densho-22-31)
Caption in album: "At times chow wasn't so good as we got our share of 'C' rations most often. Breakfast, dinner, supper day after day. But when you work hard you get hungry and when you are hungry you can eat anything. Here we heat up a C ration in our mess gear. On the rear …
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View of the American Red Cross (ddr-densho-22-51)
Caption in album: "American Red Cross Frankfurt."
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Disabled German plane on the Autobahn (ddr-densho-22-39)
Caption in album: "On the Auto Bahn [sic] between Munich to Augsburg many sections were used for airports and planes hid in the trees of the along the road forests."
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Barracks at Kaufering subcamp (ddr-densho-22-124)
View of the barracks at Kaufering, a subcamp of Dachau concentration camp.