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img Nisei soldier in France (ddr-densho-164-60)

Nisei soldier's caption: Monte Carlo. Our R.T. Platoon were M.P.s in the famous little province. They had a great time.

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img Nisei soldiers in Italy (ddr-densho-164-118)

Nisei soldier's caption: Pretty soft after sleeping on ground. San Pellogrini where our 442nd rest camp was located. If we couldn't go to some other place on pass we came here to take it easy for four days.

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img Nisei soldiers in Venice (ddr-densho-164-110)

Nisei soldier's caption: Our gondola we rented took us slowly to see the sights. Nothing but dirty buildings.

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img Nisei soldiers in France (ddr-densho-164-30)

Nisei soldier's caption: Ham and the orange tree. Sour tho! St. Martins.

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img Nisei soldiers in Italy (ddr-densho-164-99)

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img Nisei soldiers in Italy (ddr-densho-164-127)

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img Nisei soldiers in France (ddr-densho-164-28)

Nisei soldier's caption: French Alps. After the tough time up north it was pretty easy here. It was a beautiful country so clean and untouched by war. Our Bn. was spread far out companies being from 10 to 20 miles away from the C.P. Just occasional patrols and jeep patrols. Communications had a big job with …

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img Nisei soldier in France (ddr-densho-164-57)

Nisei soldier's caption: Menton is a resort city with more hotels than one can count. But it was deserted as all the civilians were evacuated partly for security reasons and for their protection. But the jerries seemed to know which building our C.P. was. Our first C.P. was shelled so we moved to another hotel, the …

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img Nisei soldier in France (ddr-densho-164-69)

Nisei soldier's caption: Footpower instead of gas. Nice, France. A city known as Miami or LA of France with a tropical climate, vegetables grown the year round. Center of perfume industry with most manufactured at Grasse some 20 miles away. Beautifult resorts by the beach.

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img Nisei soldier in Italy (ddr-densho-164-91)

Nisei soldier's caption: Wireman Gordon Kadowaki. It was a sad time for us to see our friends we slept and fought together with leave. But they earned it most of them being in the army from four to six years, and fought from Salerno on. It was a sad place with new replacements in their place.

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img Nisei soldiers in Italy (ddr-densho-164-82)

Nisei soldier's caption: Our hotel in Novi Ligure.

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img Nisei soldiers in Italy (ddr-densho-164-75)

Nisei soldier's caption: Turkomans guarded by partisans. These Turks were captured by the Germans in Russia and taken to Italy as laborers. The partisans were of use during the end of the war in rounding up the surrendering jerries but not when they fired back.

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img Nisei soldiers in France (ddr-densho-164-51)

Nisei soldier's caption: Orange lined trees in Menton.

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img Nisei soldiers in France (ddr-densho-164-35)

Nisei soldier's caption: '500' game going. We pulled out of St. Martins and came to Nile in Dec. 1944. Here the weather was very nice, including the scenery. We were wondering where we're going next.

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img Nisei soldiers in Italy (ddr-densho-164-83)

Nisei soldier's caption: Our big boss Col. Miller had us back to the Shelby days. More parades and such. Coming home after drill.

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img Nisei soldiers in France (ddr-densho-164-32)

Nisei soldier's caption: Alps from St. Sauveur.

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img Nisei soldiers in Italy (ddr-densho-164-129)

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img Nisei soldiers in Italy (ddr-densho-164-115)

Nisei soldier's caption: San Pellogrini where our 442nd rest camp was located. If we couldn't go to some other place on pass we came here to take it easy for four days.

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img Nisei soldiers in Venice (ddr-densho-164-112)

Nisei soldier's caption: Our gondola we rented took us slowly to see the sights. Nothing but dirty buildings.

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img Nisei soldiers in France (ddr-densho-164-33)

Nisei soldier's caption: Pill box on road to St. Sauveur.

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img Nisei soldier in France (ddr-densho-164-58)

Nisei soldier's caption: Menton is a resort city with more hotels than one can count. But it was deserted as all the civilians were evacuated partly for security reasons and for their protection. But the jerries seemed to know which building our C.P. was. Our first C.P. was shelled so we moved to another hotel, the …

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img Nisei soldier in France (ddr-densho-164-62)

Nisei soldier's caption: M.P. Frank Mayeda. To get away from the untasty we traded some of our ration for vegetable. Got rid of our beans, coffee, bread, cereal and etc.

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img Nisei soldiers in Venice (ddr-densho-164-108)

Nisei soldier's caption: Few of us were able to visit Venice on pass. Yes we saw the canals, more like sewers the looks of the water.

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img Nisei soldiers visiting Bagnoli (ddr-densho-164-15)

Nisei soldier's caption: Bagnoli near Naples. After our battalion and the 442nd attached to the 84 division fought to Arno and winning a presidential citation at Varoa near Leghorn we pulled back to Naples in preparation to go to France. Joined here by 800 replacements. Since Bagnoli was close to Naples and Pompeii we went visiting …

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img Nisei soldiers in France (ddr-densho-164-53)

Nisei soldier's caption: Orange trees. Note the G.I. telephone wire.

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