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![Japanese-American volunteers. With battle helmet on his head and ammunition belt about his waist, Kauai-born Mitsuru Doi, eighteen, the first AJA [Americans of Japanese ancestry] volunteer to be inducted and given a uniform is taught the rudiments of rifle drill by Sergeant John H. Chynoweth, acting first sergeant of the provisional company of Kauai inductees. Looking on are three of Doi's fellow volunteers (left to right): Hervert Y. Kondo, eighteen, son of a World War I veteran; and Chits Ugi, twenty-three, and Minoru Manabe, twenty-eight, first pair of brothers to be inducted into the AJA combat regiment now being organized](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5NDMvMDEvMDEvamFwYW5lc2UtYW1lcmljYW4tdm9sdW50ZWVycy13aXRoLWJhdHRsZS1oZWxtZXQtb24taGlzLWhlYWQtYW5kLWFtbXVuaXRpb24tMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/32/webp "Japanese-American volunteers. With battle helmet on his head and ammunition belt about his waist, Kauai-born Mitsuru Doi, eighteen, the first AJA [Americans of Japanese ancestry] volunteer to be inducted and given a uniform is taught the rudiments of rifle drill by Sergeant John H. Chynoweth, acting first sergeant of the provisional company of Kauai inductees. Looking on are three of Doi's fellow volunteers (left to right): Hervert Y. Kondo, eighteen, son of a World War I veteran; and Chits Ugi, twenty-three, and Minoru Manabe, twenty-eight, first pair of brothers to be inducted into the AJA combat regiment now being organized")