Title:
Pfc. James Oshiro receiving physio-therapy treatment at the Moore General Hospital, Swannanoa, North Carolina. He was drafted
in Hawaii in ...
Date:
1944-04-19
Subject:
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Photographs
Note:
Full title:Pfc. James Oshiro receiving physio-therapy treatment at the Moore General Hospital, Swannanoa, North Carolina.
He was drafted in Hawaii in December, 1940, went overseas with the 100th Battalion as a platoon messenger with Company C.
He tells of his unit setting up their guns in a vineyard with a group of tanks coming down the hill toward them when a shell
landed near him knocking him unconscious and inflicting shrapnel wounds in his back and shoulder. He was invalided 1 1/2 months
but after going back on duty, dislocated the same shoulder, consequently, was shipped back to this country and is undergoing
treatments.<lb/> Photographer: Van Tassel, Gretchen<lb/> Swannanoa, North Carolina.
Local Call Number:
WRA no. G-493
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Pfc. James Oshiro receiving physio-therapy treatment at the Moore General Hospital, Swannanoa, North Carolina. He was drafted
in Hawaii in ...