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Title: Pfc. James Oshiro receiving physio-therapy treatment at the Moore General Hospital, Swannanoa, North Carolina. He was drafted in Hawaii in
Date Created and/or Issued: 1944-04-19
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Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement
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Description: Full title:Pfc. James Oshiro receiving physio-therapy treatment at the Moore General Hospital, Swannanoa, North Carolina. He was drafted in Hawaii in December, 1940, went overseas with the 100th Battalion as a platoon messenger with Company C. He tells of his unit setting up their guns in a vineyard with a group of tanks coming down the hill toward them when a shell landed near him knocking him unconscious and inflicting shrapnel wounds in his back and shoulder. He was invalided 1 1/2 months but after going back on duty, dislocated the same shoulder, consequently, was shipped back to this country and is undergoing treatments. Photographer: Van Tassel, Gretchen Swannanoa, North Carolina.
Type: image
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft7v19p14t
WRA no. G-493
Subject: Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Photographs

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