Hand-Pulled Cart

Title: Hand-Pulled Cart
Author: Alfred P. Maurice
Date: 4/28/1905
Type: Image; StillImage
Description: 14th NAA Command - WWII Drawings.
Incomplete ink sketch of two men sitting on a large wheeled cart with one man pulling and one man pushing from behind.
Verso: "Summer 1945."
Maurice explained the men on the medical cart were Japanese prisoners of war who were wounded. One of the guys, Mack, who was studying Italian with Maurice at Michigan State was sent first to Europe, then to the Asiatic theater. He was among the first Japanese Americans to be sent as interpreters to fight against the Japanese soldiers who were still fighting in the north of the Luzon. Maurice.1655
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Identifier: 1090
Subject: 14th NAA Command; Alfred P. Maurice; South Pacific; WWII