Five New Soldiers Join the 442nd

Five more Japanese-American volunteers arrived at the Combat Team Saturday morning from the Minidoka Relocation Center, Hunt, Idaho, and from New Jersey. Inducted at Fort Douglas, Utah, Pvts. Augustine Aratani, Yoshio Kato, and John Kawaguchi spent their 14-day furlough traveling eastward to Chicago and New York City. They found the two cities big and busy and exciting since this was their first opportunity in over a year to walk through the streets of a large city. They had a great time visiting friends and then going to the USO centers. Pvts. Mamo Nakayama and Ross Hiraoka were the arrivals from Fort Dix, New Jersey. Nakayama is a native of New Jersey while Hiraoka was relocated only recently to that state from the Gila River Relocation Center at Rivers, Arizona.