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Title: Diary of George Fujimoto Jr. (1944)
Creator: Fujimoto, George, Jr.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1944
Contributing Institution: UC Riverside, Library, Special Collections and University Archives
Collection: Fujimoto family diaries
Rights Information: Copyrighted
Use: This work is available from the UCR Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study. Constraint(s) on Use: This work is protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Use of this work beyond that allowed by "fair use" requires written permission of the UC Regents. Responsibility for obtaining permissions and any use and distribution of this work rests exclusively with the user and not the UCR Library. Inquiries can be made to the UCR Library’s Special Collections & University Archives.
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Description: Scope/Content: Diary of George Fujimoto, Jr., a young Japanese American man from Riverside, California. Daily entries begin in January 1944, on page 21, and describe Fujimoto's time living and working in Des Moines, Iowa under the War Relocation Authority resettlement program. In February, Fujimoto was drafted into the United States Army. He completed basic training at Camp Blanding, Florida from April to August 1944, and in September began Japanese language study at the Military Intelligence Service Language School at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. During the year, Fujimoto also made two visits to his family incarcerated at Poston, Arizona.
Type: text
Format: 1 diary
Form/Genre: diaries
Extent: 424 pages
Identifier: ark:/86086/n2g44q1b
curivsc_ms096_002_gf_1944
Language: English
eng
Subject: World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans
Japanese Americans--Exclusion and incarceration, 1942-1945
United States--Armed Forces--Japanese Americans
Military education
United States. War Relocation Authority
United States. Army
Military Intelligence Service Language School (Fort Snelling, Minn.)
Place: Poston Relocation Center (Ariz.)
33.9875, -114.4011
Des Moines (Iowa)
Fort Snelling (Minn.)
Camp Blanding (Fla.)
Source: MS 096

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