Title:
Private Shizuko Shinagawa, 21, of the Women's Army Corps, who was sent to Denver to recruit Japanese-American women for the
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Date:
1944-05-22
Subject:
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Photographs
Note:
Full title:Private Shizuko Shinagawa, 21, of the Women's Army Corps, who was sent to Denver to recruit Japanese-American women
for the WAC. She described her assignment as a great opportunity to help my country and my people. She is a native of Phoenix,
Arizona, but was visiting in California at the time of the evacuation of Japanese-Americans from a strip along the West Coast.
She was assigned to the War Relocation Center at Poston, Arizona, where she remained from May, 1942, to March, 1943, when
she returned to her home in Phoenix. She was inducted August 16, 1943, into the WAC with the full consent of her Japan-born
parents. She received her basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, where she was transferred to Denver on her present assignment.
She expects to remain in Denver for 30 days.<lb/> Denver, Colorado.
Local Call Number:
WRA no. G-563
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Private Shizuko Shinagawa, 21, of the Women's Army Corps, who was sent to Denver to recruit Japanese-American women for the
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