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[ Letter to Masaji Iwate from Tatsumi Iwate, June 19, 1942 ]
[ Letter to Masaji Iwate from Tatsumi Iwate, June 19, 1942 ]
[ Letter to Masaji Iwate from Tatsumi Iwate, June 19, 1942 ]

[ Letter to Masaji Iwate from Tatsumi Iwate, June 19, 1942 ]

Date1942
Mediumpaper
ClassificationsArchives
Credit LineGift of the Iwate Family
Object number2001.145.128
Description(3) page letter to Masaji Iwate from Tatsumi Iwate at HQ Detachment DEML, Camp Carson, Colorado on June 19, 1942. Tatsumi writes that orders came on Tuesday and on Wednesday that they are leaving Camp Crowder for Camp Carson, they slept on bunks that still have no sheets, no hot water, and the PX was empty, rules and regulations seem more strict than at Camp Carson, he mentions that Pueblo, Colorado is a nice town with nice senoritas around. He ends his letter with a drawing of his face.

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