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Japanese enlistment. These Americans are striding determinedly into their draft boards at Waipahu, Territory of Hawaii, to sign voluntary induction applications. They have just been allowed to enlist in a recently formed U.S. Army combat regiment made up of 1,500 Americans of Japanese ancestry and are part of a group of 110, all of whom applied at the same time

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Japanese enlistment. These Americans are striding determinedly into their draft boards at Waipahu, Territory of Hawaii, to sign voluntary induction applications. They have just been allowed to enlist in a recently formed U.S. Army combat regiment made up of 1,500 Americans of Japanese ancestry and are part of a group of 110, all of whom applied at the same time

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Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
Image source: U.S. Army Signal Corps.
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
Film copy on SIS roll 32, frame 1295.

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01/01/1943

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Location

hawaii

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