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[ Letter to Masaji Iwate from Tatsumi Iwate, March 5, 1942 ]
[ Letter to Masaji Iwate from Tatsumi Iwate, March 5, 1942 ]
[ Letter to Masaji Iwate from Tatsumi Iwate, March 5, 1942 ]

[ Letter to Masaji Iwate from Tatsumi Iwate, March 5, 1942 ]

Date1942
Mediumpaper
ClassificationsArchives
Credit LineGift of the Iwate Family
Object number2001.145.143
Description(3) page letter to Mas Iwate from Tatsumi Iwate at Camp Robinson, Arkansas on March 5, 1942. Tatsumi writes that they were shipped out from For MacArthur to Arkansas, the camp is about 7 miles from Little Rock, they sleep in tents and there are 11,000 soldiers there, that he is in D Company of the 73rd Batallion 15th Regiment and their company is about 200 men, they will only be there for 8 weeks.

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