George Oiye photograph album, 1943-1946.

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George Oiye photograph album, 1943-1946.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154690232

A thirty-four page album of black and white photographs taken by George Oiye and Susumu Ito documenting wartime life of the Japanese American soldiers of C Battery of the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion in the European Theater from 1943 to Jan. 1946.

1 v. (34 p. of photographs).

Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6863845

Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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Oiye, George

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Staff Sergeant George Oiye was born on 19 Feb. 1922 in a log cabin at a gold mining camp near Basin Creek, Mont. His family lived there for two years before moving to Helena, Mont., to work in the Northern Pacific Railroad round-house; from there they moved to Trident, Mont., at the headwaters of the Missouri River, to work in a cement factory. George went to grammar school at Trident and high school at Three Forks, seven miles away. In 1938 his parents bought a small twenty-three-a...

Ito, Susumo

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United States. Army. Regimental Combat Team, 442nd

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The Dachau concentration camp was established in March 1933. It was the first regular concentration camp established by the National Socialist (Nazi) government. It was located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory near the northeastern part of the town of Dachau in southern Germany. During the first year, the camp had a capacity of 5,000 prisoners. Initially the internees were primarily German Communists, Social Democrats, trade unionists, and other political opponents of the Nazi re...