picture, Masuda Family at Santa Fe Depot sending off Masuda brothers Takashi and Kazuo, Santa Ana CA, 10/17/1941
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content: 10/17/1941
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content: This photograph is of some of the Masuda family and friends at the Santa Fe Depot in Santa Ana, California. They are sending off brothers Kazuo and Takashi Masuda off to their basic training camps before World War II. Takashi reported to Camp Roberts of Paso Robles in California, and Kazuo reported to Ford Ord near the Presidio of San Francisco in California.
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content: The brothers' sister, Mary Masuda, is present to send them off.
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content: The Masuda brothers were selected in the Selective Service draft during peacetime in October of 1941, shortly before the events of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Following Pearl Harbor, Kazuo and Takashi's active duty statuses were put on hold until the creation of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team unit, which were almost entirely comprised of nisei (second-generation) Japanese Americans.
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content: The 442nd Regimental Combat Team, created during World War II, went on to be one of the most highly-decorated units in all of United States Army history.
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content: After Japanese Americans were allowed to serve active duty overseas, Kazuo and Takashi were sent to the European Theater, assigned to Italy. Kazuo was killed in action when he sacrificed his life to save two of his comrades. Kazuo was posthumously awarded a Distinguished Service Cross for his heroic actions, and his brother Takashi joined the unit not long after his death. Takashi was wounded in Italy and was awarded a Purple Heart.
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Japanese American
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content: Masao Masuda
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0105.020
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content: 2015.0105
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content: 2015.0105.020
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content: photograph
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: overall: 5 in x 4 in; 12.7 cm x 10.16 cm