Clippings

Hawaiian Troops Are Coming

From Hattiesburg American April 10, 1943
San Francisco, April 10.
Twenty-five hundred Hawaiian-born Japanese are ready to train with the army’s new Japanese-American combat team.
Arrival of the Japanese was announced by the War department last night. They entrained immediately for Camp Shelby, Mississippi where they will be joined by an equal number of Japanese-Americans from the mainland.
All members of the group are volunteers, carefully chosen from among more than 10,000 applicants.