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Mitsuru Yagura in a 442nd Regimental Combat Team uniform standing next to a man in front of barrack 14H at Poston Incarceration Camp. Mitsuru was wounded in action during the battle of the Lost Battalion, France, October 28 1944. He earned a Purple Heart. From Hashimoto Poston Photograph Album, page 64. Suyeko Sue Hashimoto (nee Yagura) was born in 1921 in Sanger, California to Nakazo and Chiye Yagura. She was incarcerated in Poston, Arizona. Her brother, Mitsuru “Mits” Yagura served in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and participated in the rescue of the Lost Battalion. Sue married Yasuo Hashimoto, the second son of a farming family in the Bradshaw area of Sacramento, California.
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