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doc Manzanar Free Press Vol. II No. 33 (October 5, 1942) (ddr-densho-125-77)

Selected article titles: "U.S. Army Seeks Nets" (p. 1), "Spike That Rumor" (p. 1), "Block Managers Hold Meeting" (p. 1), "Family Arrives From Tanforan" (p. 1), "Beet Furlough Work Cuts Down Manpower Twenty-five Per Cent" (p. 1), "Welcome Dillon Myer" (p. 1), "Housing Problems Tackled" (p. 1), "Greyhounds to Chase Rabbits" (p. 1), "Publicity and the …

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doc Gila News-Courier Vol. I No. 11 (October 17, 1942) (ddr-densho-141-11)

Selected article titles: "JACL Office Open in Block 42" (p. 1), "Colony Leaves Keep Steady Pace" (p. 1), "Rules on Night Travel Stated" (p. 1), "Food Hoarders -- Food Shortage" (p. 2), "Tree Planting Discouraged Now: November Better, Says Nichols" (p. 3), "Squirrels are Plague Source" (p. 3), "Postal Regulations of Colony Changed by New Army …

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doc Poston Chronicle Vol. XII No. 25 (May 23, 1943) (ddr-densho-145-319)

Selected article titles: "More Army Volunteers to Leave Monday. Eleven Nisei to Be Inducted at Utah" (p. 1), "Evacuees Leaving Poston for Outside Employment at an Accelerated Rate. 500 Indefinite Leaves Issued" (p. 1), "Project Equipment Operating Under O.D.T. Regulations" (p. 1), "Residents Respond to Job Opportunities" (p. 1), "Hot Weather Notes Issued" (p. 1), "Voice …

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doc Poston Official Daily Press Bulletin Vol. III No. 24 (August 19, 1942) (ddr-densho-145-85)

Selected article titles: "Cooks Approve Menu; Final O.K. by Army Due. School for Cooks to Be Started Later" (p. 1), "Residents Warned, 'Drink Faucet Water'" (p. 1), "Poston 2 Department Heads to Meet Regularly to Discuss Problems First Meeting Today" (p. 3), "Requests for Moving into Other Camps to Be Continued" (p. 3), "Water System and …

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doc Rocky Shimpo Vol. 12, No. 65 (May 30, 1945) (ddr-densho-148-154)

Selected article titles: "'Most Decorated Unit in Army'"; "Casualty List"; "Mayor Scores Compelling Law"; "Scholarly Work"; "Enthusiastic Audience"; "More Variegated Education Seen"; "Search Continues for Fresno Culprits"; "FBI Quizzed 5431"; "Want Ads Today"; "Births Reported"; "Halt Reports on Investigations"; "Supreme Ct. Test Case Principal Leaves Camp"; "Editorial Says Unions Must Live With Race Discrimination and Solve …

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doc Rocky Shimpo Vol. 11, No. 67 (June 5, 1944) (ddr-densho-148-2)

Selected article titles: "Students' Relocation Program's Cost Told"; "On the Other Hand"; "Land Case in Court"; "Two Ignoring Call by Army"; "Archbishop Hits Discrimination"; "Fought and Shot"; "Percentage of Unfit Revealed"; "Violator of Regulations"; "Mayor, Admiral"; "Girls Save Him"; "Superior Feeling Hit by Official"; "Acquit Soldiers"; "Race Prejudice Hit by Soldier"; "Drop Yamada Case"; "Four Awarded …

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doc Rocky Shimpo Vol. 12, No. 75 (June 22, 1945) (ddr-densho-148-164)

Selected article titles: "Say Nisei Combat Casualties -- 2,111"; "Army Must Take Responsibility"; "Nineteen are Guilty"; "Remove Limitations"; "Settlers Increasing in Inter-Mt. States"; "Myer Inspects Offices"; "Hit Parish Action"; "Law Enforcement Men Confer in Fresno"; "Californians to Face Problems"; "Institute Employs Two"; "Propose Issei Naturalization Rights"; "Nisei Film Actors"; "442nd Operations Officer Lauds Niseis"; "Discuss Incidents"; …

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doc Rocky Shimpo Vol. 11, No. 129 (October 27, 1944) (ddr-densho-148-62)

Selected article titles: "Thousand Replacements in Six Months Provided by Army Camp"; "On the Other Hand"; "Soldier to Undergo His Third Operation"; "Peace Returns to Tule Lake Project"; "Want Ads"; "Canadian Enlistees are Asked Whether They Will Fight Nippon"; "Marine Took Charge of Young Nisei Bride Enroute to Camp"; "Author-Lecturer to Speak on Race Issue"; "Author …

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doc Rocky Shimpo Vol. 11, No. 138 (November 17, 1944) (ddr-densho-148-72)

Selected article titles: "Project Gets Instructions on Sending Youths to Outside Schools"; "On the Other Hand"; "Say Crippled Soldier Ejected"; "Soldier's Wedding at Hattiesburg, Miss."; "McWilliams Speaker Before Chicago Niseis"; "One Hundred Sixty-One More Niseis Ordered to Report to Army Camps"; "200 Resettled in Indiana Area"; "Thanksgiving Message Feature of Sermon"; "Want Ads Today"; "Deny Institute …

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doc Colorado Times Vol. 31, No. 4307 (May 8, 1945) (ddr-densho-150-20)

Selected article titles: "Treasury Department Unblocks All But Limited Number of Evacuee Accounts on Army Clear List"; "Rancher in Yuba Threatened for Hiring Japanese"; "Nisei Secretary in Rochester WRA Office Joins WACs"; "97 Families Return to Oregon"; "Report on Japanese Given Calif. Senate"; "War and Navy Depts. to Extend 'Sole Surviving Son' Policy"; "Hostel for Nisei …

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doc Colorado Times Vol. 31, No. 4352 (August 21, 1945) (ddr-densho-150-64)

Selected article titles: "Army Appeals Decision in Individual Exclusion Case"; "Admires Nisei Troops"; "Detroit Nisei Sponsor Dance"; "Bulletin! 442nd to Help Occupy Japan!"; "John Matsushima Gets Degree at Fort Collins"; "ACLU Reward Offer Unclaimed, Evacuees Flocking Back to Coast"; "Nisei Champ of Guernsey Dairy Dept."; "Learn of Marriage"; "Kalifornians' Pre-Labor Day Hop at Stevens Hotel September …

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doc Rocky Shimpo Vol. 11, No. 80 (July 5, 1944) (ddr-densho-148-16)

Selected article titles: "McNeil Island and Leavenworth Bound"; "On the Other Hand"; "Notices of Appeal Filed in the U.S. Court"; "Farmer Dies in Accident"; "Blood of All Peoples"; "Name Chairman at Conference of Ministers Here"; "Supporting Fair Cause"; "For Sale"; "Busseis Will Honor Graduates"; "Stabbed"; "Boogie Woogie Lecture in Professor Hayagawa Set"; "Reclassification Act Clarified at …

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img Family photograph (ddr-densho-154-1)

Photo donor's aunt, Masako Nakagawa, pictured with husband Masato, holding their infant daughter Seiko. Also in the photograph are Masako's uncle and aunt, the Yamasakis. Masako was born in Seattle, Washington, but was sent back to Japan at a young age and never returned to the U.S. She died of disease in Hiroshima during World War …

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doc Daily Press Review, Vol. III, No. 1 (ddr-densho-156-202)

Article titles: "Herb Caen Item"; "American Japs Good Soldiers"; "Approve Plan for Farm Labor; 231 Japanese Workers in State"; "Yuba Japanese is Under Arrest"; "Japanese Relocation Center Organization Work Smoother"; "Two Names Offered for Jap Center Here"; "Jap, Wife Held for Possessing Firearms"; "San Joaquin County Fairgrounds Used as Assembly Center Taken Over by Army"; "Mexico …

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doc Daily Press Review, Vol. VII, No. 19 (ddr-densho-156-308)

Article titles: "Boy Scouts Protect Flag at Manzanar"; "Larger Guard for Japs at Manzanar"; "Water Supply for Jap Farms"; "Church Seeks Homes for Jap Evacuees"; "4 Japs Jailed at Denver in Fight With Army Police"; "Internee Admits Attempted Bribery"; "Evacuee Labor Requests Grow"; "Grand Jury Votes to Exclude Japs from Citizenship"; "Interned Jap Aliens Now Number …

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doc Highways of honor, Military Intelligence Service, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, 100th Infantry Battalion (ddr-csujad-1-185)

A booklet of California memorial highways to honor three entities of the United States Army, 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and Military Intelligence Service. Includes an article, "The Nisei soldiers of U.S. Intelligence: America's superb secret weapon of World War II" by Dan Nakatsu. Images and map during the Pacific War are included. See …

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img Nisei military volunteers (ddr-densho-37-328)

Original WRA caption: Shown here are the four Sakura brothers who have volunteered for service in the combat team in the United States Army, which is composed of Americans of Japanese ancestry. These four brothers are fulfilling a vow made to their father, who died 20 years ago, to live and die for the United States, …

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img Nisei serviceman with wife and daughter (ddr-densho-37-751)

Original WRA caption: T/4 Taniguchi visits his wife and daughter at the Minidoka Relocation Center before returning to his unit in the Pacific. Taniguchi volunteered for the Army in 1942 when he and his family were at Tule Lake before it became a segregation center. He served in the China-Burma-India theatre and served on load to …

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doc Sentinel supplement, series 196 (May 9, 1944) (ddr-csujad-55-1605)

News bulletin published at Heart Mountain incarceration camp covering administrative announcements, events, vital statistics, and other necessary information concerning daily life in the camp. Current issue includes information on Red Cross messages, Army processing team, employment, animal regulations, and general information. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1607

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doc Sentinel supplement, series 76 (May 25, 1943) (ddr-csujad-55-1059)

News bulletin for incarcerees covering announcements, events, programs, policies, recreational activities, and jobs at Heart Mountain incarceration camp. Current issue includes information on job offers for Nisei at Army posts, employment opportunities, vocational training, nursery schools, and attorney examinations. Includes section in Japanese. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: …

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vh Victor Ikeda Interview (ddr-manz-1-23)

Nisei male. Born February 4, 1927, in Seattle, Washington. Grew up in Seattle's Japantown area, where parents operated a hotel. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, removed to the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Left camp to attend school in Minnesota, was drafted, and trained in the Military Intelligence Service Language …

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vh Nelson Takeo Akagi Interview (ddr-densho-1013-2)

Nisei male. Born July 27, 1923, in Lindsay, California. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, moved with family to Idaho for "voluntary evacuation," where they worked harvesting sugar beets for the U&I Sugar Company. Volunteered for the army during World War II. Served with the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion, and was present at the liberation of …

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img Joseph Stilwell and George C. Campbell at breakfast (ddr-njpa-1-1816)

Caption on reverse: "4/8/44. U.S. Gen. Stilwell has hurried meal on Burma front. Lieutenant General Joseph W. Stilwell (right), Commander in Chief of U.S. forces in China, Burma and India, interrupts breakfast to issue orders, somewhere on the Northern Burma front. At left is Major George C. Campbell of the U.S. Army. American and Chinese troops …

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vh Hiroshi Terry Terakawa Interview (ddr-jamsj-2-12)

Nisei male. Born January 3, 1929, in Kyoto, Japan. Came to United States as a young child with parents. Moved frequently as a child due to father's role as a Buddhist minister, living in places like Walnut Grove and Marysville, California. During World War II, was living in Salt Lake City. Drafted into the army and …

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vh Masao Watanabe Interview (ddr-densho-1000-103)

Nisei male. Born December 10, 1923, in Seattle, Washington. Grew up near the Nihonmachi area of Seattle. Incarcerated at the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. In 1943, volunteered for the army while in camp. Served in Europe with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, L Company. Returned to Seattle after the war and …

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