Overview The 442nd Veterans Club of Honolulu was organized in 1946 by veterans of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a Japanese American military unit that fought in Europe during World War II. Members of the 442nd Veterans Club include veterans assigned to the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which consisted of the 100th Infantry Battalion, 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Battalion, Special Companies, the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion, the 232nd Combat Engineer Company, and the 206th A.G.F....

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17 large (20 inches tall by 25 inches long) scrapbooks filled with newspaper clippings. Most of them seem to deal with the Americans of Japanese Ancestry (AJA) experience here in Hawaii. Some of the clippings are in Japanese.

Abstract Bishop Mitsumyo Tottori was born on May 6, 1898, on the island of Shikoku, Japan. At the age of 11 he received his tokudō (desire to enter priesthood). In 1914, Tottori completed his final ordination ceremony. Tottori graduated from the Shingon Shū Kyoto University in 1924. He was recommended to undergo study at Koyasan for missionary work. After, he was assigned to assist at the Hawaii Shingon Shū Betsuin in Honolulu, Hawaii. In June of 1927 he was reassigned to the Komyōji Temple in...

Abstract Claude Takekawa (1920-2010) was a member of the Varsity Victory Volunteers (VVV), a Japanese American volunteer labor unit that was assigned to the 34th Army Engineers at Schofield Barracks to assist in military construction projects from 1942-1943. Takekawa later volunteered for the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and served in the Military Intelligence Service. The Claude Takekawa Papers contain correspondence, documents, photographs, lists, and event programs documenting the...

Scope and Contents The collection documents "Loyalty Honored: The 442nd RCT during WWII and as Remembered Since", an exhibit produced on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. The exhibit was on display in Hamilton Library's Moir Reading Room March-July 2018, and included materials from several archival collections from the Library's Japanese American Veterans Collections.The exhibit records include planning documents such as exhibit outlines, draft and final...

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Correspondence, programs, clippings, acknowledgement cards, and other materials pertaining to memorial services for Americans of Japanese ancestry who were killed in action during the Second World War. The materials were collected and/or received by Henry "Hank" Adams as part of his duties as Entertainment Director of the District Special Services Office at the U.S. Army base in Hilo, HI.

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The Herbert S. Isonaga papers are divided into four series: 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Clippings, Personal, and Varisty Victory Volunteers. The majority of the collection falls under the Varsity Victory Volunteers (VVV) Series, which includes a variety of materials collected by Herbert Isogana throughout the years, as well as records and correspondence relating to official VVV activities such as the Varsity Victory Volunteers Scholarship.

Overview Hideo Nakamine (1922-) served as a machine gunner with the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion during World War II. The 522nd FAB, a unit of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, was one of the most efficient artillery units serving in Europe during World War II. The 522nd FAB saw action in Italy and France alongside the 442nd RCT. In March 1945, the 522nd FAB was detached from the 442nd RCT and reassigned to provide artillery support to various units participating in the Allies’ drive into Southern...

Overview Hiro Higuchi (1907-1981), a clergyman for the United Church of Christ, served as a chaplain in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team during World War II. As a chaplain, he provided comfort and solace to the troops, held religious services on the front lines, transported the wounded and dead from the battlefield, comforted injured soldiers at first aid stations, wrote letters to the families of those killed in action, held memorial services, and performed various administrative duties. By the...

Overview Hiro Higuchi (1907-1981), a clergyman for the United Church of Christ, served as a chaplain in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team during World War II. As a chaplain, he provided comfort and solace to the troops, held religious services on the front lines, transported the wounded and dead from the battlefield, comforted injured soldiers at first aid stations, wrote letters to the families of those killed in action, held memorial services, and performed various administrative duties. By the...

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The Japanese American Veterans Collection Reference Files consist of newspaper clippings, publications, and other documents collected by librarians. They document topics related to Japanese American veterans in Hawaii.

Scope Note The Japanese Internment and Relocation Files: The Hawaii Experience (JIRHE) are comprised of materials collected by Professor Dennis Ogawa, from the American Studies Department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, in connection with the National Endowment for the Humanities Grant RS 20125-81-1663. This collection includes copies of official government documents, correspondence, photographs, negatives, and maps, all documenting the experiences of Japanese internees from Hawaii during World...

Abstract John Adrian Rademaker (1905-1985), a Professor of Sociology, published the pictorial book These Are Americans: The Japanese Americans in Hawaii During World War II in 1951 to document the contributions that people of Japanese ancestry living in Hawaii made to the war effort of the United States. The book tells the story of Japanese Americans’ military participation, including the Hawaii Territorial Guard, the Varsity Victory Volunteers, the 100th Infantry Battalion, the 442nd Regimental...

Kintaro Hamashige Papers Kintaro Hamashige, raised in Laie-Kahuku, Oahu, served as an Military Intelligence Service Soldier, enlisting in the Army in 1944. He served in the Philippines, and was sent to Yokohama a week after MacArthur signed the cessation of war documents. Following the war, Mr. Hamashige attained a Business degree, and later his masters in Economics. He married Betty Ulm, and the couple settled in New York with their two children. The collection consists primarily of print material related to Mr....