Mac & Japanese/American Interpreter From Italian Campaign. · WOU Repository

Title: Mac & Japanese/American Interpreter From Italian Campaign.
Author: Alfred P. Maurice
Date: 4/28/1905
Type: Image; StillImage
Description: Oversized - WWII Drawings.
Pencil sketch of two men playing chess. One is a Japanese/American interpreter and smoking a cigarette. The title underneath reads, "Mac & Japanese/American Interpreter From Italian Campaign."
Maurice explained that the Japanese American soldiers were first sent to Europe until the war ended there. Just before the war ended in the Pacific the American Army finally trusted the Japanese Americans and brought them to Manila to use them as interpreters with the prisoners of war.
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Identifier: 1113
Subject: Alfred P. Maurice; Manila (Philippines); South Pacific; WWII
Spatial Coverage: Manila (Philippines)