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Title
Postcard from Wickenburg to Shigeko Yamamoto, September 7, 1943
Date Created and/or Issued
1943-09-07
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
Postcard to Miss Shigeko Yamamoto at Block 222-9-B Poston, Arizona written from Wickenburg, Arizona.
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
text
Format
Postcards; Correspondence
2 pages; 5.5 x 3.5 inches, handwritten
application/pdf
Identifier
sac_oki_0025
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/57602
Language
English
Subject
World War II--Leaving camp
Place
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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