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Description
George Nobuo Naohara's note describing his military experience. An item from "George Naohara photo album" (csudh_nao_0001), page 26. The George and Mitzi Naohara Papers consists of photo albums and scrapbooks compiled by George and Mitzi Naohara, and other documents pertaining to the Naohara and Masukawa family. Contained are photographs, correspondence, documents, and memorabilia depicting their experiences during World War II. George Nobuo Naohara is a Kibei Nisei, and his experiences include his farm labor in Idaho and Utah, incarceration in the Manzanar, Jerome, and Tule Lake camps, and the U.S. Army language school training and Korean War. He also engaged in Buddhist activities for his whole life and there are moving images depicting Gardena Buddhist Church activities after the war. Mitzi Masukawa Naohara was a preschool teacher at the Poston camp, Arizona, and also a member of a young Nisei women's club, "Sigma Debs.” Her collected materials depict her life as a teacher and social events in the Poston camp during the war.
Type
text
Format
Narratives 3.25 x 3 inches, handwritten image/jpeg
Identity and values--Kibei World War II--Military service--442nd Regimental Combat Team Military service--Post-World War II service Military service--Postwar occupation of Japan Korean War, 1950-1953
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections
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