Title:

Among the passengers bound for Los Angeles from the Rohwer Relocation Center were Mr. and Mrs. George S. Kaneko and ...

Date:

1945-07-30

Subject:

Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Photographs

Full title:Among the passengers bound for Los Angeles from the Rohwer Relocation Center were Mr. and Mrs. George S. Kaneko and their young daughter of 5562-1/2 West Adams Blvd., Los Angeles 16, California. George is a graduate of the school of electrical engineering of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. Also, he is an experienced produce broker. He has a brother with the armed forces overseas, Pfc. Theodora Kaneko. A sister, T/5 Alice Kaneko, is with the WACs at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. All returnees and Caucasian personnel accompanying them on their return trip, over lines of four railways and with equipment varying from a fairly modern cafe car to antiquated wooden coaches of the gaslight era, reported a satisfactory and uneventful trip. A tourist sleeper was reserved for the aged and a few who were ill. En route several crowded troop trains, in some cases bearing G.I.'s back from the South Pacific, were met by the Rohwer Special on sidings. All reported that hearty and cordial greetings were exchanged. Disembarking at various stations between Sacramento and Los Angeles, the returnees found many friends to greet them, both Caucasians and Japanese Americans. The unanimous verdict? We're glad to get home!<lb/> Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru<lb/> Los Angeles, California.

WRA no. -39

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Collection:

War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement