Japanese-American volunteers. This is the Army, Shuichi "Pete" Sakamoto, surveyor and civil engineer, and Bill Shiramizu of Hanamaulu, are told by Captain C.J. White, commanding officer of the provisional company of AJA (Americans of Japanese ancestry) volunteers on Kauai, as they spend their first day in camp. Not yet sworn into the Army, the men has passed their preliminary physical and were waiting results of their X-ray and blood tests. They were among the first of Kauai's contingent of AJA volunteers to begin the last stage of the induction procedure
Summary
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Image source: U.S. Army photo from OWI.
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
DDE: vd image does not match caption, although it does have the same subject.
Film copy on SIS roll 32, frame 1760.
Tags
Date
01/01/1943
Location
hawaii
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain