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Title
Letter from Frank S. Okusako, 1st Lt., Infantry, 1945
Creator
Okusako, Frank: author
Date Created and/or Issued
1945
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
All requests 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
Statement by Frank Okusako describing his family's loyalty to the United States, his upbringing in Auburn, California, service in the United States Army, and arguing for his family's release from Tule Lake incarceration camp.
The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications.
Type
text
Format
Correspondence
5 pages; 11 x 8.5 inches, typescript
application/pdf
Identifier
sac_jaac_0235
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/7688
Language
English
Subject
World War II--Resistance and dissidence--Segregation and Tule Lake
World War II--Resistance and dissidence--Renunciation of citizenship
World War II--Military service
Place
Newell, California
Incarceration Camps--Tule Lake
Source
California State University, Sacramento, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
Japanese American Archival Collection

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