![Japanese-American volunteers. A typical army scene--waiting in line for dinner. First of the territory's AJA [Americans of Japanese ancestry] volunteers to take their physical exams, these Kauai, Hawaii men were quartered in a provisional camp pending annoucement of results of final tests. Here they enthusiastically form their first chow line as dinner is served. A few of the volunteers started off right by going on KP (Kitchen Police) duty the first few hours in camp](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5NDMvMDEvMDEvamFwYW5lc2UtYW1lcmljYW4tdm9sdW50ZWVycy1hLXR5cGljYWwtYXJteS1zY2VuZS13YWl0aW5nLWluLWxpbmUtZm9yLWRpbm5lci0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/320/262/jpg "Japanese-American volunteers. A typical army scene--waiting in line for dinner. First of the territory's AJA [Americans of Japanese ancestry] volunteers to take their physical exams, these Kauai, Hawaii men were quartered in a provisional camp pending annoucement of results of final tests. Here they enthusiastically form their first chow line as dinner is served. A few of the volunteers started off right by going on KP (Kitchen Police) duty the first few hours in camp")
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!["Dinner-Toters" waiting for the gate to open. This is carried on more in Columbus than in any other city I know, and by smaller children. (See photos.) Many of them are paid by the week for doing it, and carry, sometimes, ten or more a day. They go around in the mill, often help tend to machines, which often run at noon, and so learn the work. A teacher told me the mothers expect the children to learn this way, long before they are of proper age. (See also Vaughn's Georgia Report, April, 1913.) Eagle and Ph[o]enix Mill. Location: Columbus, Georgia.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTMvMDEvMDEvZGlubmVyLXRvdGVycy13YWl0aW5nLWZvci10aGUtZ2F0ZS10by1vcGVuLXRoaXMtaXMtY2FycmllZC1vbi1tb3JlLWluLWNvbHVtYnVzLTQtNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/31/webp "\"Dinner-Toters\" waiting for the gate to open. This is carried on more in Columbus than in any other city I know, and by smaller children. (See photos.) Many of them are paid by the week for doing it, and carry, sometimes, ten or more a day. They go around in the mill, often help tend to machines, which often run at noon, and so learn the work. A teacher told me the mothers expect the children to learn this way, long before they are of proper age. (See also Vaughn's Georgia Report, April, 1913.) Eagle and Ph[o]enix Mill. Location: Columbus, Georgia.")
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![Japanese-American volunteers. Among the men from local board No. 2 on Kauai, Hawaii who reported for physical examination prior to induction into the AJA [Americans of Japanese ancestry] combat unit taking shape in the territory were these three pairs of brothers. From left to right they are: Minoru, twenty-eight, and Chitsugi Manabe, twenty-three; Tooru, eighteen, and James S. Takenaka, twenty; and Shigeo, twenty-one, and Tadao Suemori, twenty. Tooru Takenaka was still a student in high school when he went up for his physical. He volunteered because "I want to go in with my brother to do my share."](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5NDMvMDEvMDEvamFwYW5lc2UtYW1lcmljYW4tdm9sdW50ZWVycy1hbW9uZy10aGUtbWVuLWZyb20tbG9jYWwtYm9hcmQtbm8tMi1vbi1rYXVhaS1oYXdhaWktNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/33/webp "Japanese-American volunteers. Among the men from local board No. 2 on Kauai, Hawaii who reported for physical examination prior to induction into the AJA [Americans of Japanese ancestry] combat unit taking shape in the territory were these three pairs of brothers. From left to right they are: Minoru, twenty-eight, and Chitsugi Manabe, twenty-three; Tooru, eighteen, and James S. Takenaka, twenty; and Shigeo, twenty-one, and Tadao Suemori, twenty. Tooru Takenaka was still a student in high school when he went up for his physical. He volunteered because \"I want to go in with my brother to do my share.\"")
Japanese-American volunteers. A typical army scene--waiting in line for dinner. First of the territory's AJA [Americans of Japanese ancestry] volunteers to take their physical exams, these Kauai, Hawaii men were quartered in a provisional camp pending annoucement of results of final tests. Here they enthusiastically form their first chow line as dinner is served. A few of the volunteers started off right by going on KP (Kitchen Police) duty the first few hours in camp
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Picryl description: Public domain photo of Japanese painting, free to use art, no copyright restrictions image.
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Date
01/01/1943
Contributors
United States. Office of War Information.
Location
Pakala Village, 21.93301, -159.64726
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain
