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...
There are songs aplenty these days around the Anti-Tank company of the Japanese-American Combat Team since it was awarded the music book, “America Sings” by junior regimental chaplain Lt. Thomas E. West for being the first company to learn the words of America’s national songs....
On his way back to Hawaii after his graduation from the Yale University Divinity School, the Reverend Katsuso Miho of Hawaii spoke to the Japanese American soldiers of the Combat Team, Sunday morning in the 3rd Bn. amphitheatre. Speaking on the theme of “Two Crosses,”...
A check for $6800 was formally handed over to Col. C. W. Pence, commander of the Japanese-American Combat Team at regimental headquarters at Camp Shelby today — the proceeds of a two week strive among soldiers of the Combat Team for the Hawaiian poliomyelitis (infantile...
The 442nd Inf. battered the Hattiesburg Semi-Pros 17-4 Sunday afternoon at Kamper park. The Pros made a good start in the first inning scoring two runs to one for the 442nd. The boys from the islands turned loose their big guns in the 3rd to...
In the first of three tough games this week, the Japanese American Combat Team baseball team will play the 100th Infantry Bn. nine Tuesday on field in No. 7. On Thursday afternoon, the Combat Team will oppose the 631st Ordnance squad for the non-divisional baseball...
Sgt. Geo. H. Katada and Pvt. Harry H. Kanada of Honolulu, Pvt. Hiroshi Torii of Maui, and Pvt. Rodney Miyamoto of Hilo, are four of the Japanese-Americans who like their 80 degrees of Hawaii, and were wondering how much rain our showers would amount to....
Mrs. J. T. Barrett, and Chaplain Barrett are expecting Mrs. Barrett’s sister of Jackson, Tenn., at the beginning of the week. The Barrett’s are located at the Woman’s College. Mrs. Barrett was on the Post to attend the 442nd Combat Team review which was followed...
The first formal review of the 442nd Combat Team took place Friday afternoon at Camp Shelby. Col. C. W. Pence, team commander, was the reviewing officer. Lt. Col. V. R. Miller, executive officer, acted as commander of the troops during the review. Col. Kai Rasmussen,...
Muss Freeman has been selected to start on the mound for the Hattiesburg semi-professional baseball team which plays the 442nd Infantry (Japanese-American) of Camp Shelby at 2:45 PM Sunday at Kamper park. Freeman has pitched in only one game this year for Hattiesburg, giving up...
Sixteen members of the Japanese-American combat team traveled to Poplarville Thursday night and put on several feature numbers for the Poplarville Civic Organization celebration held in the athletic stadium of Pearl River Junior college. The soldiers made the trip in a college bus driven by...
The Harrisburg semi-professional baseball team will attempt to make it three victories in a row when it meets the once-beaten 442nd Infantry (Japanese-American) squad, Sunday afternoon at Kamper park. The game will start at 2:45. The teams were evenly matched in what should be one...
Pvt. Kiyoshi Tsubata, a member of the Japanese-American combat team, celebrated his 24th birthday July 1 with a huge birthday cake. A letter from his wife, Frances, from Wailua, Oahu, Hawaii, addressed to Lt. K. Akamatsu and Chaplain John T. Barrett, asked that the two...
The first formal parade of the entire Japanese-American Combat Team, including the 442nd Infantry Regiment, the 522nd Field Artillery and the 232nd Engineer Company, will be held at 5:30 this afternoon on the east drill field. Col. C. W. Pence, commanding officer of the combat...
Flaky apple pies, tasty cinnamon rolls, fluffy hot cross buns, browned whole wheat rolls — it’s a simple matter for Pvt. Takeme Kajikawa of Service Company of the Japanese-American Combat Team to toss the ingredients together to make tempting pastries. Chief baker for the Lincoln...
The three Onodera brothers, Ko, Kaun, and Sataru, who volunteered for the Japanese American Combat Team from the Minidoka Relocation Center, Hunt, Idaho, were confirmed into the Protestant Episcopal Church Monday, June 21, by Bishop Duncan Gray of Mississippi in Chapel No. 19. All three...
Twenty members of the Japanese American Combat Team will take part in the Civic Organization Night on Thursday, July 1, in the Pearl River Junior College athletic stadium at Poplarville, Miss. The judo team under 1st Lt. Bert Nishimura, and Pvt. Harry Hamada and his...
Memorial services in respect to the relatives of Japanese-American soldiers who died recently in Hawaii were conducted Sunday morning in the 442nd Combat Team assembly tent by Capt. John T. Barrett, regimental chaplain. The services were attended by members of the platoons of the bereaved...
Japanese American soldiers serving in the medical detachment of the Combat Team at Camp Shelby show a greater natural aptitude for their work than any other soldiers he has encountered as a group, according to Regimental Surgeon Capt. C. H. Buckley who commands the detachment....
Miss Esther Kikawa and Miss Florence DeMand, Norristown Pa. are visiting Pvt. Robert Kikawa, Btry. C, 522nd F. A. Bn. Misses Kikawa and DeMand are staying at Guest House No. 3. Mrs. David Kamayatsu, Los Angeles, is among the Japanese American wives in Hattiesburg. Pfc....
More than 1,000 people attended the boxing bouts Wednesday night in the 474th Quartermaster regimental athletic area… … Next on the program was an exhibition of “Judo” which is the art of self-defense and hand-to-hand combat without weapons. The exhibition was staged by two members...
Down to the farm to ride horses and eat watermelons will be a new experience for many soldiers when 300 members of the Japanese American Combat Team go to the Rolfin Stock farm Sunday afternoon on the invitation of Earl Finch, owner. An exciting program...
For his birthday, Pvt. Masanobu Hayashi of the Japanese American combat team received a cake from his mother, Mrs. Satsuma Hayashi of Pahoa, Hawaii, inscribed “From Mother.” A huge cake with “Happy Birthday, Lovingly Yaeko” written on it was presented to Pvt. Tauneo Takemoto of...
By Louise Rogers Food and shoe rationing, is confusing to the eight wives of Japanese-American officers who arrived here June 16 from Hawaii, and they missed the flowers which grow in profusion in the Islands. Otherwise they feel at home, and are delighted to have...
From a thoughtful Japanese-American girl in Hawaii came a sincere birthday greeting and a cake to Pvt. Masaru Otagura of Co. M, of the 442nd Combat Team on his 22nd birthday, June 21. Chaplain Lt. Thomas E. West, junior regimental chaplain, and Pvt. Toshiaki Mimura...
Four members of the 442nd Infantry will give judo exhibitions tonight during the 474th Quartermaster Regiment boxing matches in the Quartermasters recreational area. Judo team members are: Lt. Bert Nishimura, Pvts. James Kamo, Wallace Doi and Pvt. Ed Terema. In a determined bid to win...
The 442nd Combat Team had a thoroughly enjoyable week-end with girl guests from the Rohwer and Jerome Relocation Centers in Arkansas. The three bus-loads of girls and their chaperones arrived in Camp Shelby late Saturday afternoon. Some of them had been here for the dance...
Fifty Nisei soldiers from Hawaii serving in the Japanese American Combat Team here cabled Father’s Day greetings to their dads back in the islands in time for Sunday morning delivery. The messages were youthful and sincere, some humorous. Limited to twenty-five words, one soldier cabled:...
A drive for funds to aid the fight against poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) in the Hawaiian Islands, is being conducted in the Japanese American Combat Team here, many of whose members came from Hawaii. The poliomyelitis drive is sponsored by Varsity Victory Volunteers, a unit of...
With many a wheeze, experimental toots and cracked lips, the regimental band of the Japanese American Combat Team is slowly taking shape at Camp Shelby. Sgt. Jun Yamamoto, who is organizing the band, is hopeful however, and even loquacious about the talent he already has...
Thirty-nine non-commissioned officers of the Japanese American combat team were graduated this morning from a four weeks’ course of instruction designed to further their competence as leaders. Certificates of their proficiency were handed the men by Reg. Adjutant Capt. Harry B. Farr at exercises held...
Allowing only one hit, a home run in the fifth inning with one man on base, pitcher Anzai of the 442nd Infantry team, led his mates to a10-2 victory over the 202nd Engineers yesterday afternoon on diamond No.7. Capitalizing on 6 errors and seven walks...
Add to the brother combinations serving at Camp Shelby in the Japanese American Combat Team the three Onoderas from Minidoka relocation center at Hunt, Idaho. Pvt. Ko Onodera, 26, is the oldest of the three brothers. The other two are Kraun, 24 and Satoru, 22....
One hundred girls from Jerome relocation center at Denson, Ark., will be guests of the enlisted men of the 442nd (Japanese-American) Combat Team Saturday evening at the regimental dance at Service Club 5 at Camp Shelby. The girls will arrive at Camp Shelby and specially...
Second Lt. Russell L. Sipe, of the 442nd (Japanese-American) Combat Team, left Wednesday for San Antonio, Tex., where he will begin flight training at San Antonio Air Base. Members of his company (Headquarters Co., Third Bn.) paid Lt. Sipe a farewell tribute at noon mess...
The 442nd Inf. Took a firm hold on second place in the Eastern League of the Camp Shelby Non-Divisional Baseball League by trouncing the 522nd F. A. 9-3 yesterday afternoon. The Japanese-American 9 pounded out five runs in a merry-go-round first inning to build up...
The Miyake’s have been in Hawaii for three generations and two of those generations have gone to war when their country called. In World War I three of the family served in the United States Army, two of them as staff sergeants and one a...
(by Associated Press) Honolulu, T. H., June 9 — Hawaii's first chaplain of Japanese ancestry to enter the armed forces is Masao Yamada, 36, a practical Congregational minister who says “God and guns will win the war for the United Nations.” A first lieutenant in...
If the girls of Bogalusa, La. are wearing gardenias over one year, it is an adoption of a Polynesian custom introduced by members of the 442nd (Japanese-American) combat team, when they were guests there last week-end of the Young Woman's Professional Club. The 25 enlisted...
He's only a private in the Japanese American combat team but 90 soldiers formerly employed by the Hawaii Pineapple Company still think of Sam Oka as “the boss.” In 13 years of service with the pineapple company Oka rose to the position of foreman of...
The marriage of Miss Mariam Lucille Parker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Parker of Moselle, and Lt. H. W. Corbiere, Reg. Hqs. 442nd Inf., took place at 4:00 PM Friday in Chapel 19 at Camp Shelby. Chaplain John T. Barrett, Captain and senior chaplain...
Lt. Ralph Yempuku, Co. G, 442nd Inf., is a 1936 graduate from the University of Hawaii. He taught physical education for several years after graduating and is a good all-round athlete naming tennis, swimming, and football among his favorites. When the war broke out and...
Co. M, Bn., 442nd Inf., was responsible this week for the hilarious and enjoyable show presented each Wednesday night at Dixon stadium. Opening the program, M. C. Pvt. Timo Tomikoshi, better known as “Timoshenko,” introduced Pvt. Kashu Nishida's warblers who sang Hawaiian melodies. The entire...
Pvt. Thomas Miyamoto, Co. E, 442nd Inf., celebrated his birthday June 2 with a cake sent to him by his brother, William, who is in Hawaii. Through the American Red Cross, William made arrangements to have the birthday cake sent to his brother. Chaplain John...
Twenty-five enlisted men of the Japanese American combat team at Camp Shelby will go to Bogalusa, LA., this week-end as guests in the homes of the townspeople. This trip is being arranged by the Young Professional Women's Club of Bogalusa under the direction of their...
Twenty-five enlisted men of the 442nd Combat Team will spend the week-end of June 5-6 at Bogalusa, La., as guests in the homes of the townspeople. The trip is being arranged by the Young Women's Professional Club of Bogalusa, under the direction of the YWCA,...
Captain Claude P. White received promotion Thursday to the rank of major in the 442nd Infantry, where he is regimental supply officer. Major White entered the army in 1940, has been stationed successfully at Ft. Benning, Ga., Camp Blanding, Fla., Camp Bowie, Tex., and since...
Forty-two rounds of fast boxing are scheduled for the first 442nd Combat Team boxing exhibition at 8’clock tonight in the third battalion area. Two “main events” are scheduled and two semi-wind ups. All bouts will be for two rounds two minutes a round. Intermission music...
(By Associated Press) Honolulu, May 28. — Lieut. General Delos C. Emmons, commander of the Hawaiian department of U. S. Army during the grim days following the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor will relinquish that command June 1 and be succeeded by Major Gen....
The 442nd Inf. lost its first game in six starts Tuesday afternoon, yielding 2-1 to the 474th Qm. Prior to this game the two teams were tied for the first place in the Eastern League standing. Stoner pitcher for the Qms. won his fourth straight...
Pvt. Paul Bannai, member of the 442nd Combat Team, was once a cashier at the California Bank and also worked for the Bank of America in Los Angeles. He is a graduate of the Roosevelt high school in Los Angeles and attended the University of...
Several wives of enlisted men in the 442nd Combat Team presented Sgt. and Mrs. Merrill Greene with a wedding gift of table linen at a tea held at the USO Cottage Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Greene, the former Mary Paul Jefferson, is the program director for...
“Dynamite comes in little packages.” Proof of this old saying is seen in 442nd Inf. Service Co.'s mess Sgt. Hitoshi Kanemitsu. Measuring a scant 5' 2 “and weighing a mere 117 lbs, Sgt. Kanemitsu keeps the company's mess hall going smoothly and efficiently with growls...
Co. K, 3rd Bn., 442nd Inf., is presenting a musical skit tonight in Dixon Stadium, the amphitheater just behind Service Company, 442nd Inf. Sgt. Charles Tanaka, leader of the Hawaiian Combateers, is in charge of the program and promises one full of variety, talent, and...
Corp. Frederick O. Jimbo has been commissioned a Warrant Officer in the field artillery battalion of the Japanese American Combat Team. Formerly a resident of Sacramento, Cal. Mr. Jimbo is a graduate of the School of Business Administration of the University of California at Los...
The 442nd Inf. Baseball team is justified in proudly and loyally announcing it is as yet still undefeated. The team has played five games and has amassed a total of 74 runs as compared to the four allowed opponents. Hattiesburg American 1943 May 24 Page...
Pvt. James Kamo, Service Co., 442nd Inf. Is working up a judo exhibit, which will be given at the Fieldhouse. The date will be announced. Pvt. Kamo defines judo as a “streamlined version of Ju-jitsu.” He has been doing judo for about 8 years and...
The sun beat down piteously. The red clay drill field at Camp Shelby caught the glare and the heat and hurled them back cruelly in the faces of the marching men. Perspiration streamed and darkened their dusty uniforms. Then came a rest. The man fell...
Company L, 442nd Infantry, gave a variety show entertainment Wednesday evening at the third battalion amphitheater of the Japanese American combat team. The title was “You Can Take It With You. (We don't want it!)” comedy skits, group and chorus singing, Hawaiian melodies, and a...
Lt. and Mrs. Roy M. Hirano have arrived from Camp Savage, Minn. Lt. Hirano is with the Reg. Hqs. Co., 442nd Inf. The Hiranos are here apartment hunting. Any help along this line will be greatly appreciated. They may be reached at phone number 2687....
Enthusiastic ring followers in the Japanese-American Combat Team don't believe in pulling their punches. They are confidently predicting that their newly-formed boxing team will win the championship of Camp Shelby. The team, which was organized under the direction of Lt. Roger (Slugger) Smith, a former...
(By Associated Press) Manzanar, Calif. — One of the American-born Japanese detained for the duration of this war fought for Uncle Sam in another — the Spanish-American. Harry Noboteru Sumida was a gunner's mate on the battleship Indiana. He was wounded by a shell, and...
Co. L, 3rd Bn., 442nd Inf. announces a Hawaiian musical skit at 7:00 tonight at the 3rd Bn. amphitheater. Men in this Bn. and their guests are invited. The amphitheatre, directly behind Co. L area, is picturesquely situated among Mississippi's famous pine trees. This skit,...
Cpl. Harry Komatsu of Service Company, 442nd Inf., misses one thing in Mississippi. Snow. He is an avid skier — owning not one but two complete skiing outfits. His hometown, Sacramento, is not far from the Sierra Nevada's — his favorite stomping grounds. When not...
Japanese-American troops of the 442nd Combat Team celebrated “I Am an American Day” Sunday in their own regimental area with a special program extolling the advantages of citizenship and acknowledging its responsibilities. By voluntarily enlisting for service in the combat team, these soldiers already have...
The cat that traveled to London to see the queen was a piker compared to Henrietta, who has come all the way from Hawaii to reside in Hattiesburg. Henrietta is a red 9-tenths Persian belonging to captain and Mrs. R. B. Ensminger, 119 Mabel Street....
Rehearsals for the Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman play, “You Can't Take It With You,” are now underway, following the listing of an all soldier-WAAC cast. Directing the production, which we presented at the post within the next three weeks, are Pfc. Sol Stember,...
The 442nd Infantry again showed its power by completely smothering the 148th Engineers 23-0 in their game Thursday afternoon at Camp Shelby. Kiguchi, starting pitcher for the 442nd, fanned 7 out of 9 batters and allowed no hits in the first 3 innings. After that...
Pvt. James Kakuda of Co. L, 442nd Inf. was the Hawaiian Interscholastic diving champ in 1939-40. He attended McKinley high school and was a carpenter before he entered the army. When asked how he liked the mainland, he enthusiastically answered, “Give me Hawaii any time!...
Pvt. Gordon Ichiji Oshikota of Co. K, 442nd Inf. celebrated his birthday on May 11 with a big cake sent to him by his family in Honolulu. The Oshikota family cabled both money and a message for his birthday. Chaplain Eugene West presented Pvt. Oshikota...
Pvt. Takashi Hirose, Co. M, 442nd Inf., is one of the champion swimmers in the Combat Team. He has made four trips to the mainland to compete in various swimming meets. His swimming career began at the age of four; he entered competitive swimming at...
Pvt. Sam Fujikawa of Hqtrs, Co., 442nd Inf., was a cab driver in Honolulu before the war broke out. On Dec. 7, 1941 he was awakened by “a lot of noise.” Upon investigation he noticed that the sky was full of black smoke and knowing...
Another elimination ping pong contest which was sponsored by Service Club 5 Monday evening was hard fought with the game points being close. Semi-finalists were Pvt. Y. Furuno of the Medics, who lost to Pvt. W. Haraki also of the Medics 21-12, and Pvt. H....
Sgt. Suzumu Kazahaya in the 522nd F. A. proudly announces the arrival of a 6 pound 1 Oz. baby daughter, Kumi. Mrs. Kazahaya and the baby are in the Rohwer, Ark., Relocation Center where the baby was born on April 28. Both mother and daughter...
Japanese American troops at Camp Shelby sent 247 telegrams to their mothers in the islands on Mother's Day. The average cost was $2.00 a message of about 25 words. Many of the soldiers had never been away from home before they left for the mainland...
The reading habits of Japanese American troops in combat-team training at Camp Shelby indicate a fondness for books on American history and biography, technical subjects and social sciences, according to Miss Mattie Swearingen, librarian at the Service Club No. 3, which is well patronized by...
The 166th Inf. band played for the dancing at the open house held at Service Club 5 on Sunday. Although some of the members had seen and spoken to men in the 442nd Combat Team before this event, many of the band members were surprised...
Open house at Service Club 5 Sunday was a huge success and immensely enjoyed by all soldiers and their guests who came from Gulfport, Bay St Louis, and Hattiesburg. Dancing, which began at 2:30 and lasted until 5:00, was the main attraction for the afternoon....
Pvt. Norima Horimoto, better known as “Shorty,” of Co. L, 442nd Inf., worked as a mechanic's helper in the American Can Co. In Hawaii. His hobby is stamp collecting. He has a large box of unmounted stamps in the Islands. When asked what he liked...
Pvt. Lloyd Aoki of Co. L., 442nd Inf. attended the University of Hawaii for a year studying entomology and worked as a federal plant inspector before his voluntary enlistment. This being his first trip to the mainland, he was greatly impressed with the orchards that...
Sgt. Roy Otani of the 442nd Combat Team is spending the weekend with friends in Columbia. Pvt. Rodney Morinaka of Co. I, 442nd Inf. Is one of the many volunteers who left a defense job for active service. He likes to sing, as do so...
Pvt. Suneo Yamaguchi celebrated his birthday May 7, with a cake sent to him by his parents in Hilo, Hawaii. His family appealed to the USO in Hilo to arrange for a birthday cake to be given him on Friday. The cake, a beautifully decorated...
Nicknames are often a good index to the Americanization of our citizens of foreign ancestry. Nicknames are universal but only Americans have perfected the art of bestowing them with great irreverence to fit the subject. Nicknames of Japanese-American soldiers in training here for a combat...
Pvt. Larry Ishida of Hqtrs. Co., 2nd Bn., has been playing the piano for only a few months, but like so many of his musically talented fellow soldiers, he is really a “whiz.” He states that music is his hobby and first love, with any...
Soldiers in the Hawaiian combat team began work today at Camp Shelby after their first week-end open ball and open-house at Service Club 5 where they entertained 100 Japanese-American girls from the relocation center at Rohwer, Arkansas. The visitors arrived Saturday evening and went to...
Capt. Reid Jorgensen, intelligence officer, 442nd Infantry Combat Team training at Camp Shelby, recently was promoted from first Lieutenant. Capt. and Mrs. Jorgensen and their nine months old son live at 211 Chestnut street, Hattiesburg. Capt. Jorgensen’s hometown is New York City where his parents,...
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...