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Japanese enlistment. Thomas Aoki, forty, father of six children, fills out his voluntary application for the U.S. Army Combat Regiment being organized solely of Americans of Japanese ancestry. Aoki is one of a group of 110 Aiea Plantation employees who signed up one afternoon at Selective Service Board No. 9 in Waipahu, Territory of Hawaii as soon as formation of the regiment was officially announced. Others in the group waiting to sign up are shown behind Aoki

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Japanese enlistment. Thomas Aoki, forty, father of six children, fills out his voluntary application for the U.S. Army Combat Regiment being organized solely of Americans of Japanese ancestry. Aoki is one of a group of 110 Aiea Plantation employees who signed up one afternoon at Selective Service Board No. 9 in Waipahu, Territory of Hawaii as soon as formation of the regiment was officially announced. Others in the group waiting to sign up are shown behind Aoki

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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 1291.

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01/01/1943
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