This subseries contains several sketchbooks drawn by Yoshio Takamoto of the 100th Infantry Battalion while on active duty. The sketchbooks contain watercolors, pen and pencil drawings of landscapes, soldiers, and scenes of everyday life during the unit’s time in Italy and North Africa. Two larger sketchbooks (approx 7x9.25) contain watercolors from the unit’s time at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin and Camp Shelby in Mississippi and are dated 1942 November to 1943 January. Eight smaller notepads (approx 5x3) contain pen and pencil sketches of Louisiana maneuvers, life on board ship, Italy, and North Africa. These small notepads are not systematically dated, but the images from Italy appear to be from 1943 while those from North Africa were done in 1944.