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Pfc. James Oshiro being examined by Major Rotherwell in charge of physio-therapy at Moore General Hospital, Swannanoa, North Carolina. Pvt. Oshiro 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. -- Photographer: Van Tassel, Gretchen -- Swannanoa, North Carolina. 4/19/44

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The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.