Tatsuo Yamane photographs 2014.001

Nicole McKeon
Go For Broke National Education Center
2018-04-19
355 E. 1st Street, Suite 200
Los Angeles, CA 90012
archives@goforbroke.org


Language of Material: English
Contributing Institution: Go For Broke National Education Center
Title: Tatsuo Yamane photographs
creator: Yamane, Tatsuo, 1918-2011
source: Yamane-Peluso, Toyoko
source: Peluso, Vincenzo
Identifier/Call Number: 2014.001
Physical Description: 20.5 Megabytes
Date (bulk): 1941-1946
Abstract: This collection contains 94 digital surrogates of photographs documenting Tatsuo Yamane's MIS training and his military time serving in Asiatic-Pacific Theatre in New Guinea and Morotai Island in Indonesia. Yamane was a Japanese interrogator for the Military Intelligence Service in the Asiatic-Pacific Theatre.

Content Description

This collection contains 94 digital surrogates of photographs documenting Tatsuo Yamane's MIS training and his military time serving in Asiatic-Pacific Theatre in New Guinea and Morotai Island in Indonesia. Yamane was a Japanese interrogator for the Military Intelligence Service in the Asiatic-Pacific Theatre.
The photographs are all black and white and portray Japanese American soldiers as well as scenery and buildings in the Asiatic-Pacific Theatre.

Conditions Governing Access

Not to be given to a third party.

Processing Information

Processed by Erin Sato on 03/25/2015.

Biographical / Historical

Tatsuo Yamane was born in Hawaii and attended grammar school in Japan, where he acquired excellent Japanese reading and writing skills. He later finished his high school education in Fresno, California. During his military service he was a Japanese interrogator for the Military Intelligence Service.
Yamane served in the Asiatic-Pacific Theatre in New Guinea and Morotai Island in Indonesia.

Existence and Location of Originals

Digital surrogates can be found at: http://ndajams.omeka.net/collections/show/999. Requests for high quality photographs should be made to the Archivist.

Additional collection guides

Preferred Citation

[Item], [Collection], Go For Broke National Education Center, Los Angeles, California.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

World War, 1939-1945
Japanese Americans
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans
Military Intelligence Service Language School (U.S.)
United States. War Department. Military Intelligence Service
United States. Army. Infantry Battalion, 100th
United States. Army. Regimental Combat Team, 442nd
Fort Leonard Wood (Mo.)
Missouri
New Guinea
Morotai Island (Indonesia)
Philippines
Camp Savage
Yamane-Peluso, Toyoko
Peluso, Vincenzo