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2141 items
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List of Japanese American males in Heart Mountain (ddr-csujad-55-748)
List of Japanese American male incarcerees in Heart Mountain incarceration camp who were inducted into the army. Indicates name, identification number (USES #), change of block address, and date of induction. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0750
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List of Japanese American males in Heart Mountain (ddr-csujad-55-747)
List of Japanese American male incarcerees in Heart Mountain incarceration camp who were inducted into the army. Indicates name, identification number (USES #), change of block address, and date of induction. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0749
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List of Japanese American males in Heart Mountain (ddr-csujad-55-746)
List of Japanese American male incarcerees in Heart Mountain incarceration camp who were inducted into the army. Indicates name, identification number (USES #), change of block address, and date of induction. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0748
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Eddie Owada Interview (ddr-manz-1-37)
Nisei male. Born December 22, 1925, in Tacoma, Washington. Grew up primarily on Vashon Island, Washington. Removed to the Pinedale Assembly Center and the Tule Lake concentration camp, Washington, later transferring to the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Drafted into the army and served with the Military Intelligence Service. Worked for the U.S. Forest Service and eventually …
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Alfred "Al" Miyagishima Interview (ddr-manz-1-27)
Nisei male. Born December 2, 1926, in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Family operated grocery store prior to World War II. Moved to Stockton, California, due to father's illness. Removed to Stockton Assembly Center and Gila River concentration camp, Arizona. Resettled in Nebraska and finished high school. Drafted into the army in 1945, and joined family in Denver, Colorado, …
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Taketora Jim Tanaka Interview (ddr-manz-1-50)
Nisei male. Born January 2, 1926, in Sacramento, California. Grew up in Sacramento, where parents ran a farm. During World War II, removed to the Marysville Assembly Center and Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Transferred to the Topaz concentration camp, Utah. Drafted into the army, and served with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team in Italy. Following …
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George C. Marshall shaking hands with Hsiung Shih-Hwei (ddr-njpa-1-976)
Caption on reverse: "Allies in fight against Axis: General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, exchanges greetings with General Hsiung Shih-Hwei, head of the Chinese Military Mission to the United States, in General Marshall's offices at Washington. In the background is a portrait of General John J. Pershing, leader of the American …
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Brigadier General Jimmy Doolittle (ddr-njpa-1-185)
Caption on reverse: "Smiling Jimmy. Brigadier General James H. (Jimmy) Doolittle, who led the U.S. bombers in the air raid on Tokio [sic], had this big smile for the camera at a dinner in New York City at which he was made a life member of the Army and Navy Legion of Valor. (Not for use …
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Man standing at entrance to railway tunnel (ddr-ajah-2-779)
Caption: During WWII, U.S. Army soldier Howie Hurst guards a train track and tunnel in January 1942, somewhere in the Feather River Canyon of Northern California. The canyon is located along Highway 70 between Oroville and Quincy. Howie's fellow soldier, Joe Iwataki, is taking the photo. Iwataki was from Alameda, CA. Supplemental scan of ddr-ajah-2-315 with …
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Minidoka Irrigator Vol. V No. 14 (June 2, 1945) (ddr-densho-119-141)
Selected article titles: "WRA Institutes New Relocation Assistance Policy" (p. 1), "Hunt H.S. Graduation Rites Held Friday night" (p. 1), "Army Announces No More ERC Status for Nisei" (p. 1), "Anti-Nisei Union in California Gets Suspension" (p. 1), "Gov't Housing Available to Evacuees" (p. 1), "Arsonist Fined for Setting Fires to Japanese Homes" (p. 1), "Canadian …
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Letter from Tadashi Ishida to Mr. & Mrs. Y Ishida (ddr-densho-535-258)
Talks about selling cigarettes to Italians to supplement Army pay. Family tagged this letter with a sticky note "selling cigarettes". Expects to move to Pisa soon; because the 442nd has priority, he will go home with the regiment when they go; asks for lighter fluid and magazines. Parents' note on envelope back: 260 Saturday Sept. 29, …
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Letter to Yuri Domoto from Yoshito Shibata (ddr-densho-356-230)
Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Yoshito Shibata in which he discusses his report on his recruitment trip to WRA camps, his recent trip to Minneapolis, his thoughts on Christmas in the army vs. in camp, and censorship of the mail. While in Minneapolis visited a florist that use to do business with the Domoto Bros …
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Chaplain Hiro Higuchi interviewed by Eric Saul, part 2 of 2 (ddr-densho-1007-1764)
Higuchi discusses fighting the German army, the religious beliefs of the 100th and 442nd, preventing marriages between Japanese nationals and American soldiers, why he decided to become a chaplain, and his interpretation of Christ and God. This interview was not conducted specifically for Loni Ding's work, rather for a book the Presidio was putting together. Original …
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Tulean Dispatch Vol. IV No. 14 (November 28, 1942) (ddr-densho-65-108)
Selected article titles: "68 Nominated; Election Mon." (p. 1), "WHSE Area to Be Fenced Out" (p. 1), "Army School Volunteers to Wear White Honor Bands" (p. 1), "Math Teacher Sought; #3108" (p. 1), "Stores to Take Inventory, Co-op Will Operate Soon" (p. 3), "Two White Teachers Resign From School" (p. 3), "Nisei Soldier Here From New …
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Tulean Dispatch Vol. III No. 47 (September 9, 1942) (ddr-densho-65-44)
Selected article titles: "Babies Face Cameras" (p. 1), "Workers Recruited for Beet Fields" (p. 1), "Industry Surveyed" (p. 1), "Shoe Store Opens" (p. 1), "Domestic Jobs Offered Nisei" (p. 1), "Scale Expert Wanted" (p. 1), "Nisei Instructors Needed for Army" (p. 1), "Farmers' Float Win First Prize in Labor Day Parade" (p. 3), "Tulean Farm Products …
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Tulean Dispatch Vol. IV No. 10 (November 23, 1942) (ddr-densho-65-106)
Selected article titles: "Coal Rumor Unfounded" (p. 1), "Army School Volunteer Needed to Fulfill Quota" (p. 1), "Sears Service Made Available" (p. 1), "Plans Laid for Music Concert" (p. 1), "Project Directory to be Published by Dispatch" (p. 1), "Montana Workers Return" (p. 1), "City Board Needs 3 Technicians" (p. 1), "Communique No. 3: Early Birds …
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Letter to Yuri Domoto from Yoshito Shibata (ddr-densho-356-247)
Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Yoshito Shibata in which he informs her that a backlog of letters were delivered to his unit causing him awe at the importance of communication while in the army, he also talks about visiting his hometown and offers to stop by the Domoto's nursery to check in on things for …
Narrator George H. Morishita
Nisei male. Born in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in the Los Angeles area. During World War II, was removed to the Manzanar concentration camp, California. After leaving camp, lived in Sawtelle, California, for a time before being drafted in the army and serving in Korea. Lived in Arizona and Nevada after the war.
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American Concentration Camps Volumes 1-9 Collection (ddr-densho-372)
The documents printed here in these nine volumes trace and explicate not only the decision to submit a whole people to internal exile but also delineate the execution and modification of the policy during the course of the war. The documents were drawn largely from the archives of the government department chiefly responsible, the War department, …
Narrator George S. Matsui
Nisei male. Born March 1, 1915, in Los Angeles, California. Spent prewar childhood in Long Beach, California, but attended grade school and junior high in Japan. Returned to the United States to attend high school. In 1941, was drafted into the U.S. Army and sent to Camp Roberts, San Luis Obispo, California for basic training. Was …
Narrator Norman I. Hirose
Nisei male. Born June 22, 1926, in Oakland, California. Grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, removed with family to the Tanforan Assembly Center, California, and Topaz concentration camp, Utah. Signed "no-no" on the so-called "loyalty questionnaire" in 1943 because of mother's wish to have the family move to Japan. …
Narrator Minoru J. Shibata
Nisei male. Born 1928 in San Francisco, California. Spent most of childhood on Terminal Island, California, where father was a fisherman. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, father was arrested by the FBI and the rest of the family moved to Ogden, Utah, to farm. Served in the Army Air Corps in Japan during the U.S. …
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Kazuichi Takanishi Collection (ddr-densho-314)
The Kazuichi Takanishi Collection is comprised of government documents the family gained through the Freedom of Information Act. The documents detail Takanishi's arrest after Pearl Harbor, his interrogation, internment, parole to Chicago, Illinois, and return to Hawaii after the war ended.
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Soldier and mother (ddr-densho-151-45)
Original WRA caption: Florin, Sacramento County, California. A soldier and his mother in a strawberry field. The soldier, age 23, volunteered July 10, 1941, and is stationed at Camp Leonard Wood, Missouri. He was furloughed to help his mother and family prepare for their evacuation. He is youngest of six years children, two of them volunteers …
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Norman I. Hirose Interview (ddr-densho-1013-7)
Nisei male. Born June 22, 1926, in Oakland, California. Grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, removed with family to the Tanforan Assembly Center, California, and Topaz concentration camp, Utah. Signed "no-no" on the so-called "loyalty questionnaire" in 1943 because of mother's wish to have the family move to Japan. …