333 results for: World War II, 1941-1945 (WWII)
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Kihara family at home after repatriation from Hiroshima, June 1947
In 1932, Tsueko Kihara and her five children left their home in Seattle for an extended visit to Japan. Her husband, Ichimatsu Kihara, remained in Seattle working as a fish wholesaler. When Japan invaded China in 1937, the Kiharas were unable to leave the country and were stuck in Japan during the entire Pacific War. On August 6th, 1945, the…
ID Number:2000.107.098.17.01
Date:1947
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Rikuko Tanaka being examined by Dr. Michio Yamakido, Seattle, May 23, 1981
In this image, Rikuko Tanaka is examined by Dr. Michio Yamakido at the Public Health Service Hospital in Seattle. Tanaka was a survivor of the US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. This exam was part of a study conducted by the Japanese government which aimed to keep track of the health of atom bomb survivors living in the US…
ID Number:2000.107.098.19.07
Date:1981
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Incarceration camp survivors at reparations hearing, Seattle, September 11, 1981
The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) was appointed by Congress in 1980 to conduct an official study into Executive Order 9066 and the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. The CWRIC held public hearings in several U.S. cities, including Seattle, and the testimonies were recorded. In 1983, the Commission issued a…
ID Number:2000.107.098.19.08
Date:1981
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Japanese Americans from Bainbridge Island in back of military truck, March 31, 1942
In this image Seijiro Nakamura, second from left, and his children are shown seated in an army truck with Private Tony Bova. The elderly man on the right is Kihachi Hirakawa, pastor of the Japanese church at Winslow. The minister had held his final services three days before in the church he built with is own labor more than forty…
ID Number:2000.107.098.21.01
Date:1942
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Bob and Yoshi Hosokawa waiting for bus during forced removal, 1942
This image shows Bob and Yoshi Hosokawa, who had been married three months, awaiting their turn to board the bus for the train that will carry them to the Minidoka War Relocation Center in southern Idaho, where they would be incarcerated until 1945.On February 19, 1942, shortly after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and United States entry into WWII, President…
ID Number:2000.107.098.22.01
Date:1942
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Child waiting to be taken to an incarceration camp during WWII, November 30, 1942
On February 19, 1942, shortly after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and United States entry into WWII, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, calling for the exclusion of all civilians of Japanese descent from "designated military areas." More than 9,000 Japanese and Japanese American people living in the Pacific Northwest were forced into incarceration at camps in Idaho and…
ID Number:2000.107.098.22.02
Date:1942
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Inmates working on WWII boat at McNeil Island Penitentiary, October 4, 1942
McNeil Island is a 6.6 square mile island located in south Puget Sound, lying 2.8 miles across the water from the nearest town. The site was utilized for 142 continuous years as an island-based penal institution, beginning in 1869 with a jail built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 1909 the facility became a federal prison, the McNeil…
ID Number:2000.107.123.18.07
Date:1942
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Inmates working in cannery at McNeil Island Penitentiary, October 1942
McNeil Island is a 6.6 square mile island located in south Puget Sound, lying 2.8 miles across the water from the nearest town. The site was utilized for 142 continuous years as an island-based penal institution, beginning in 1869 with a jail built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In 1909 the facility became a federal prison, the McNeil…
ID Number:2000.107.123.19.02
Date:1942
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Men at Nisei Veteran's Committee Memorial Day service, May 30, 1953
The Nisei War Memorial Monument at Lake View Cemetery in Seattle was erected in 1949, funded by many small donations raised in a massive door-to-door campaign in the Puget Sound region. The 21-foot-high column lists the names of 47 Japanese American soldiers from Seattle who were killed during World War II. Later, the names of nine Seattle-area service members of…
ID Number:2000.107.124.07.01
Date:1953
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Filipino veterans Benjamin Escano, Jose Morales, and Fidel Rubias at their lawyer's office, October 30, 1990
During World War II, thousands of Filipinos fought for the US armed forces, including many who suffered years of poor treatment in prisoner of war camps or who continued fighting a guerrilla war after the US abandoned the Philippines. These veterans were promised US citizenship in return, but after the war many were told they were too late to become…
ID Number:2000.107.128.04.01
Date:1990