Captain Yoshiye Togosaki is about to leave for Italy with UNRRA as a medical officer assigned by the U.S. Public ...

1945-02-01

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

WRA no. G-815

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Full title:Captain Yoshiye Togosaki is about to leave for Italy with UNRRA as a medical officer assigned by the U.S. Public Health Service. Captain Togosaki is one of six daughters all working in medicine. Four of them were evacuated from the West Coast under the Army Exclusion order of 1942 and all are now working in their chosen profession. Kazue, who was at Manzanar with Yoshiye is a resident physician in obstetrics in a Chicago hospital; Chiye, also from Manzanar, is a nurse with the Chicago City Health Department; Yaye is a lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps working in a psychiatric hospital; Teru, from Colorado River, is a resident physician in the tuberculosis unit of a New York City hospital; Mitsuye is in Honolulu continuing her work as public health nurse. A brother, Susumu, who was also at Colorado River, is now living in Chicago. The elder Mr. Togoaski from Central Utah is in Salt Lake City with his wife, Sugi. Photographer: Van Tassel, Gretchen College Park, Maryland.
Part of: War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement

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