A group of Japanese-Americans who appeared en masse at the blood donor section of the American Red Cross to volunteer ...

1944-01-28

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

WRA no. G-342

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Full title:A group of Japanese-Americans who appeared en masse at the blood donor section of the American Red Cross to volunteer their blood as a protest against reported Japanese atrocities upon American prisoners of war captured in the Philippines. Dr. Howard Suenaga, a physician and surgeon formerly of Guadalupe, California, but now of Denver, shepherded 35 Nisei to the blood donor section after they had told him they wished publicly to express their indignation against the military clique of Japan. Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru Denver, Colorado.
Part of: War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement

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