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Full title:Second Lieutenant Kei Tanahashi of the 442nd Combat Team in the United States Army. Lt. Tanahashi is a Nisei, a former reserve officer, and served his military training at U.C.L.A. He and his father were operating a dry cleaning business in Los Angeles when military authorities evacuated all persons of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast Defense Areas. The family was sent to the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, where they still reside. Kei left the center to take post graduate work in economics and finance at the University of Nebraska while he awaited his call to active duty. He is now assigned to an infantry company in the United States Army Japanese-American Combat team at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. Photographer: Parker, Tom Denver, Colorado.
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