Go For Broke National Education Center

Ewart Yasukawa Collection, 1942-1993

Ewart Yasukawa Collection, 1942-1993

Summary

Creators:
Yasukawa, Ewart (Ewart Suyehiro Yasukawa) and Lee, Ted
Abstract:
This collection consists of personal materials from Ewart Yasukawa's time serving in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team Company I in World War II.
Extent:
0.42 Linear Feet 1 folder
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

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

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of personal materials from Ewart Yasukawa's time serving in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team Company I in World War II. Most of the materials are from his time in the Army but there are some post-War materials relating to his Company.

Biographical / historical:

Ewart Suyehiro Yasukawa was born in 1916 in Sacramento. He enlisted in the Army in 1941 and joined the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Company I.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
California
Japanese Americans
Japanese Americans -- History -- 20th century
United States.
United States. Army. Infantry
United States. Army. Regimental Combat Team, 442nd
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans

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
Website
Army Records, bulk 1942-1945
Scope and content:

Contains:

- Copy of Ewart Yasukawa discharge (1945)

- Ewart Yasukawa vehicle card (1944)

- War Department envelope

- "60 Questions and Answers You and Your Family Should Know" publication prepared for Army Ground Forces Replacement depot, Ft. Mede (1944) with Kay K. Yasumara and Ewart Yasukawa handwritten names and signatures

- Camp Roberts Infantry Replacement Training orders for transferred grades (1942)

Background

Scope and content:

Contains:

- Copy of Ewart Yasukawa discharge (1945)

- Ewart Yasukawa vehicle card (1944)

- War Department envelope

- "60 Questions and Answers You and Your Family Should Know" publication prepared for Army Ground Forces Replacement depot, Ft. Mede (1944) with Kay K. Yasumara and Ewart Yasukawa handwritten names and signatures

- Camp Roberts Infantry Replacement Training orders for transferred grades (1942)

Post-War Records, 1993
Scope and content:

Contains: Company I, 442nd mailing lists (1993)

Background

Scope and content:

Contains: Company I, 442nd mailing lists (1993)