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Title
Mitsuru Yagura at Fort Hayes, Ohio, November 15, 1942
Date Created and/or Issued
1942-11-15
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
Mitsuru Yagura wearing a 442nd Regimental Combat Team uniform standing outside at the top of stairs. He was a member of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, wounded in action during the battle of the Lost Battalion, France, October 28 1944. The handwriting on the photo reads: Mitsuru Yagura at Fort Hayes, Ohio, November 15, 1942. Title from handwriting. From Hashimoto Poston Photograph Album, page 63.
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.
Type
image
Format
Photographs
black and white, 6 x 4 inches
image/jpeg
Identifier
sac_hash_0146
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/57371
Subject
World War II--Military service--442nd Regimental Combat Team
Identity and values--Japanese American identity
Identity and values--Men
Place
Columbus, Ohio
Source
California State University, Sacramento, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
Hashimoto Family Collection

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