Hospitalized at Dibble General Hospital, Menlo Park, California, are a number of Nisei veterans of the famous 100th Infantry Battalion ...

1945-07-14

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

WRA no. -75

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Full title:Hospitalized at Dibble General Hospital, Menlo Park, California, are a number of Nisei veterans of the famous 100th Infantry Battalion and the equally famous 442nd Infantry team. Among them is Corp. Minoru Yoshida of the 100th, from Honolulu, shown here talking with Mrs. Jack Epstein, member of the Public Relations staff of the hospital. Corp. Yoshida was at Schofield Barracks, Honolulu, during the Pearl Harbor attack. He was overseas in the tough Italian campaign for 20 months before getting tangled up with a land mine at Cecina on July 2, 1944. Corp. Yoshida's wife, Jean, resides at 891 N. King Street, Honolulu. He wears the following: Purple Heart, Combat Infantry Badge, ETO with two Battle Stars, Unit Citation, Good Combat ribbon, Pre-Pearl Harbor, Bronze Star, and Asiatic-Pacific (one Battle Star) Pearl Harbor. Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru Palo Alto, California.
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