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Title: Boys baseball team at Poston II incarceration camp
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1944-1945
Contributing Institution: California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection: CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information: All request for permission to publish must be submitted in writing to California State University, Sacramento, University Library, Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained. Further information available online: www.lib.csus.edu/scua
Description: Photograph eleven boys from Poston II Incarceration Camp wearing baseball caps. Six baseball bats are stacked in front of the group. From Poston II Memories; Joan Oki Album #1, Page 19.
George Oki (Nisei), born March 9, 1927 to Magoichi and Masayo (nee Kamada) Oki in Sacramento, California. He was incarcerated at Pinedale Temporary Assembly Center and Poston II Incarceration Camp. He became a control tower operator in the Army Air Forces Communications System Unit in post-WWII occupied Japan at Itazuke Air Force Base in Kyushu, Japan.
Type: image
Format: Photographs
black and white, 2.75 x 4.5 inches
image/jpeg
Identifier: sac_oki_0147
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/57697
Language: English
Subject: World War II--Incarceration camps--Sports
Community activities--Sports--Basketball
Identity and values--Men
Identity and values--Youth
Place: Parker, Arizona
Incarceration Camps--Poston (Colorado River)
Source: California State University, Sacramento, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Relation: California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
George Oki Collection

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