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Title
Letter from Drusilla Tanaka to Col. Kim with article
Creator
Tanaka, Drusilla: author
Date Created and/or Issued
[1998-11-17]
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
Permission to publish the image must be obtained from the CSUDH Archives as owner of the physical item and copyright. In instances when the copyright ownership is not clear it is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain copyright permission.
Description
A photocopy of a letter from Drusilla Tanaka, one of the Board's Research Team members, to Col. Kim. In the letter, Drusilla Tanaka described her team's research on Americans of Japanese Ancestry who were killed in action during World War II. The other members' names of the Board's Research Team, Karleen Chinen and Ted Tsukiyama, are handwritten. Along with the letter, a photocopied article, "So proudly we hail: honor roll of World War II Americans of Japanese Ancestry," is attached. The article includes "enlisted men and officers of the 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Military Intelligence Service, and 1399th Engineer Construction Battalion who lost their lived in World War II."
The Henry Y. Ikemoto Collection contains correspondence, photographs, articles, chronologies, rosters, books, booklets, programs, reunion yearbook, and album. It depicts Americans of Japanese ancestry’s military service, mainly Anti-Tank Company, 100th Infantry Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and Military Intelligence Service. It also describes activities by organizations and reunions of Japanese American veterans and the Rohwer incarceration camp.
Type
text
Format
Correspondence; Articles
10 sheets, 11 x 8.5 inches, typescript
application/pdf
Identifier
ike_02_06_009
csudh_ike_0066
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/7820
Language
English
Subject
World War II--Military service--1399th Engineer Construction Battalion
World War II--Military service--100th Infantry Battalion
World War II--Military service--442nd Regimental Combat Team
World War II--Military service--Military Intelligence Service
World War II--Military service
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections;
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c85t3r5t/
Henry Y. Ikemoto Collection

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