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...
One of the Army's finest battalions—the 100th Infantry from Hawaii—which had been stationed for several months at Camp Shelby, is now engaged in maneuvers. The picture above was taken at Shelby and shows Staff Sgt. Harry Mijamoto lecturing on the use of the hand grenade....
Two battlers and one of Camp Shelby's recent championship ring bouts were caught by the camera in this unique pose. The fighter with back to camera is Salvatore Spatare with the 474th Quartermasters who won the 135-pound open title from Sake Higa, 100th Infantry, whose...
Mrs. Lillian Minor, director of the USO Cottage went to Jackson to meet with the YWCA secretaries of the leadership workshop of Mississippi. YWCA secretaries at relocation centers in Arkansas were present to discuss plans for the American-Japanese wives of the soldiers who are coming...
Mrs. Fay Smith of Newman, Georgia is in Hattiesburg again visiting her husband, Capt. M. E. Smith, of the 442nd Infantry Regiment, Medical Division. Mrs. Smith is a very enthusiastic Red Cross worker. At the present she is attending the Spanish classes at the USO...
Mrs. Heidi Kim of Los Angeles, is visiting her husband Lieut. Young Kim of the 100th Infantry Battalion, 85th Division. Mrs. Kim is a well educated American born Chinese. She is a registered nurse and a very good typist. She is making Hattiesburg her home...
The Victory concert program to be given at 4:00 p.m. Sunday at the Front Street USO was announced today by Lucille Keen, USO music director. The program will be presented in the social hall by Chaplain T. E. West, tenor, 442nd Infantry Regiment; Sgt. Nick...