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Odo, Franklin

 Person

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

VVV Oral History Project Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MANUSCRIPT-M00034
Overview The Varsity Victory Volunteers (VVV) was a 169-member all-Japanese American volunteer labor unit assigned to the 34th Army Engineers at Schofield Barracks to assist in military construction projects from February 1942 through January 1943. A majority of the members were University of Hawaii ROTC students who were inducted into the Hawaii Territorial Guard (HTG) following the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. As a result of the general atmosphere of distrust following Pearl Harbor,...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1984 - 1992