Minoru Shinmoto photographic collection, bulk 1944-1945

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Summary

Title:
Minoru Shinmoto photographic collection
Dates:
bulk 1944-1945
Creators:
Shinmoto, Minoru and Shinmoto, Minoru
Abstract:
These four panoramic photographs show Minoru "Min" Shinmoto and his company, 34th Infantry Division Company B, at basic training at Fort McClellan, Alabama as well as Company D at basic training at For Snelling, Minnesota.
Extent:
1.2 Gigabytes
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

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

Background

Scope and content:

These four panoramic photographs show Minoru "Min" Shinmoto and his company, 34th Infantry Division Company B, at basic training at Fort McClellan, Alabama as well as Company D at basic training at Fort Snelling, Minnesota.

Two of the images are photographs and two are black and white sketches.

Biographical / historical:

Minoru "Min" Shinmoto was born in Upland, California on June 30, 1925. When America entered World War II, the Shinmoto family was incarcerated in Gila River Concentration Camp, Arizona, where Min graduated from Canal High School in 1943.

Min was drafted into the US Army in 1944 and took basic training at Fort McClellan, Alabama. He spent the next few months in Fukuoka, Japan with the Occupation Forces, and later lead a contingent of ten MISers, interrogating repatriates from Manchuria. Finally, he was discharged from the US Army in November, 1946.

Min spent the following 51 years in the family's retail nursery business, Southern California Nursery, Inc. in Culver City. The family-owned business closed on March 1, 1999 and Min retired with his wife of 55 years in Torrance, California. Min passed away April 21, 2018.

Processing information:

Processed by Erin Sato 03/23/2015.

Physical facet:
JPEGs and TIFs
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Nicole McKeon
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2018-05-22 12:06:39 -0700 .

Access and use

Preferred citation:

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

Location of this collection:
355 East 1st Street, Suite 200
Los Angeles, CA 90012, US
Contact:
(310) 328-0907
archives@goforbroke.org
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