1st Lt. Shigeru Tsubota playing bridge with other officer patients at the Moore General Hospital, Swannanoa, North Carolina. Lt. Tsubota ...

1944-04-19

War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, 1942-1945 circa 1941-1947

WRA no. G-498

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Full title:1st Lt. Shigeru Tsubota playing bridge with other officer patients at the Moore General Hospital, Swannanoa, North Carolina. Lt. Tsubota was wounded in the leg by shrapnel while serving with the 100th Battalion in Italy. He is a graduate of the University of Hawaii and did post graduate work in vocational education, specializing in agriculture. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lt. in the reserve in Jan., 1940, called into active service in March 1941 and promoted to 1st Lt. in August, 1942. Photographer: Van Tassel, Gretchen Swannanoa, North Carolina.
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