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[ Letter to Mas Iwate from Tatsumi Iwate | February 1, 1943 ]
Date1943
Mediumpaper, ink
ClassificationsArchives
Credit LineGift of the Iwate Family
Object number2001.145.80
Description5-page letter by Tatsumi Iwate to his brother Mas Iwate in the Jerome concentration camp on February 1, 1943 from Camp Hale, Colorado. Tatsumi writes about how quickly a month has gone by since he visited him, that he is a G.I. publicity agent for movie industry, that he is on the shipping list, that they are going to organize a combat outfit entirely of Japanese Americans and ask for volunteers or draft them from the concentration camps, that he is going with a shipment of 34 Nisei boys to Camp Shelby.
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