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Three persons who helped bring together 125 Japanese American girls from New York City and vicinity and 200 Nisei soldiers from a nearby army camp to the Nyack, N.Y., USO for dance and entertainment on March 3, 1945, meet with a typical soldier, Pvt. Isao Kudo, and a typical Nisei girl, Miss Tubbis Kinimatsu. The group includes (left to right): Peter Aoki, Eastern representative of the Japanese American Citizens League; Miss Helen Zolkis, assistant director, Nyack USO; Pvt. Kudo, formerly of Los Angeles, who was evacuated to the Heart Mountain Relocation Center and had resettled to Chicago before his induction into the U.S. Army; Miss Kunimatsu, formerly of Bellingham, Washington, and Heart Mountain and at present residing in New York City, where she is working as a sales clerk; and A.L. Esplin, Director of the Nyack USO. -- Photographer: Fujihira, Toge -- New York, New York. 3/3/45

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The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.