Scrapbook Number One

File — Box: 1, Folder: 1

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Scope and Contents

1: Certificate of Wallace Doi's Bronze Star.
2: Wallace Doi's certificate of discharge from the U.S. Army.
3: "Men of the Varsity Victory Volunteers. By orders of the Commanding General and head of the Military Government, members of the Hawaii Territorial Guard who were of Japanese ancestry were "inactivated." There were 169 Americans of Japanese ancestry; these, and others, were later to be known as the "A.J.A.'s" - who were students at the University of Hawaii. They joined the Guard voluntarily with the hope that this was one way to serve our country in time of need. The inactivated volunteers were deeply disappointed when told that their services were no longer needed. They made a second appeal to the U.S. government and their offer of service was accepted. [The volunteers] were organized as a labor corps, (U.S. Corps of Engineer Auxiliary, 34th Combat Engineer Regiment at Schofield Barracks). It was then the group became known as the Varsity Victory Volunteers, a pledge that the boys of the VVV carried out with pride and energy. In 1943 the VVV was inactivated. About this time, the War Department in Washington announced that Americans of Japanese ancestry in all parts of the country would be eligible for combat duty. From this call emerged the 100th Infantry Battalion and later the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Many of the 169 who organized the original VVV were among the casualties of WWII. Their comrades will not forget their "Devotion unto death," nor will the people of Hawaii."
4: Unkei Uchima, member of the Varsity Victory Volunteers (VVV), in a football uniform.
5: Members of the University of Hawaii "Football Rainbows" and most likely members of the Varsity Victory Volunteers. Wallace Doi, Unkei Uchima, unidentified, and Jyun Hirota.
6: Portrait of Wallace Doi, President of Kauai High, 1940.
7: Wallace Doi in a wheelchair during his recovery at the Bushnell General Hospital, 1944.
8: Ralph Yempuku standing next to a sculpture dedicated to the VVV of which he was a member. Yempuku was one of the founders of the VVV and served with the 442nd during WWII.
9: Raymond Uehara, "Paia," a member of the 442nd.
10: VVV boys reunion in Honolulu, 1963.
11: Wallace Doi's prosthetic service card, 1947.
12: Shiro Amioka doing paperwork at a desk.
13: VVV boys reunion in Honolulu, 1963.
14: Wallace Doi's identification card.
15: Wallace Doi at the University of Hawaii where he was a member of the swimming team.
16: Wallace Doi overseas in his field uniform and helmet, Italy.
17: Portrait of Wallace Doi in his uniform.
18: Wallace Doi in uniform sitting on a bench.
19: Group of men and women gathered around a banquet table at a reception for Mary and Hideo Higa. Bobby Maeda, Hideo Higa, Willie Oshiro, Sparky Matsunaga, Raymond Uehara, Kazuo Fujimoto, Willie Higa, Mary Higa, Mabel Fujimoto, Lily Yasuda, Violet Ishi and her two sisters.
20: Willie Higa playing the guitar while sitting on a bed in the Bushnell General Hospital.
21: Willie Higa in a wheelchair at Bushnell General Hospital.
22: Hideo Higa and Willie Higa (not related) at the Utah State Capitol.
23: Willie Oshiro, Toshio Kokubun and Don Seki in Honolulu, Hawaii.
24: Wallace Doi and Merle Akutagawa at Bushnell General Hospital.
25: Jerry Miyashiro, Willie Oshiro, Toshio Kokubun, and Ben Murakami.
26: Wallace Doi, Toshio Kokubun and Don Seki sitting on the front porch of a house in Honolulu, Hawaii.
27: Willie Oshiro, Willie Higa, Wallace Doi, and Mary Doi sitting on the steps of the Utah State Capitol.
28: Willie Higa (in chair), Don Seki, Willie Oshiro, Hiroshi Hirai, Harry Okada, Wallace Doi, and Mary Doi.
29: Painting by Kimie Doi of her father following his passing.
30: Plaque received by Mary Doi from President Lyndon B. Johnson honoring the memory of Wallace Doi.
31: Bill Higa of the 100th Battalion and Don Seki of the 442nd "L" Company.
32: Wallace Doi and Harry Okada at Bushnell General Hospital.
33: Hiroshi Hirai and Ben Murakami.
34: Bushnell boys at the O.K. Café in Salt Lake City where the group would meet and play Hawaiian music for the customers. Willie Oshiro, Toshio Kokubun, Jerry Miyashiro, Kiyoshi Yoshii, and Willie Higa.
35: Jerry Miyashiro, (?), Wallace Doi, Hiroshi Hirai, and Ben Murakami.
36: Seiko Arakaki with another soldier.
37: Joe Lim, Don Seki and Wallace Doi at Bushnell Hospital.
38: Bushnell patients, (?), Plummer of Alabama and Don Seki.
39: Mrs. Miyake, Mrs. Yutaka Doi, Mary Doi, and Mrs. Daijiro Doi at Salt Pond Airport in Kauai.
40: Mary Doi with her Uncle Isami Doi and friends at the Salt Pond Airport, Kauai.
41: Shigeru Goto, Willie Oshiro, Beverly Seki, Don Seki, and friend.
42: Uncle Isami and fellow artists, May 7, 1946 in Kauai, Hawaii.
43: Uncle Isami at the Kauai Airport, 1946.
44: Willie Oshiro, Beverly and Don Seki.
45: Beverly Seki watching Shigeru Goto "promenading" in town.
46: Beverly and Willie in Denver.
47: Beverly in an army jeep.
48: Beverly with Wallace Doi.
49: Bobby Maeda, Wallace Doi, Toshio Kokubun, Don Seki, Jerry Miyashiro, Jerry Shigaki, Stanley Takemoto, Captain Richardson, William Oshiro, and Masaru Miyoshi."
50: Willie Oshiro, Don Seki, West Oahu Nanakuli Beach , Hawaii.
51: Joe Lim and ladies visiting patients at Bushnell Hospital.
52: Don Seki and Bobby Maeda.
53: Patients at the Bushnell Hospital.
54: Jerry Miyashiro standing in front of the O.K. Cafe.
55: Stanley Takemoto, Hideo "Higgins" Higa, Jerry Miyashiro, and Bobby "Bobbins" Maeda.
56: "Smile that gets 'em." Shigeru Goto.
57: Tosh Kokubun, "Fat man Koke," Jerry Miyashiro and Don Seki.
58: Herbert Doi, Don Seki, Shigeru Goto, and William Oshiro.
59: Don Seki and others in a field.
60: Herbert Doi, (?), (?), Don Seki, Wallace and Mary Doi at Salt Pond, Makawele, Kauai Airport
61: Herbert Doi, Don Seki, Willie Oshiro, Wallace Doi, and Mary Doi at an airport in Kauai. Reddish colored rock salt was manufactured here.
62: Reception for Wallace Doi and Willie and Lily Oshiro. Hideo Higa, Shigeru Goto, Janet Goto, Eddy Goto, Mabel and Kazuo Fujimoto, Willie Higa, Bobby Maeda, Wallace Doi, Willie and Lily Oshiro, and Sidney Oshiro.
63: Wallace Doi standing on Main Street. Hotel Utah can be seen in the background.
64: Portrait of Jack.
65: "Model patients," Wallace Doi and hospital buddies.
66: Milton and Mari Tobari Oda wedding portrait.
67: Man leaning on a car.
68: Shigeru Goto standing next to a railroad car.
69: View of the Golden Gate Bridge from a moving car.
70: Oakland Pier to San Francisco.
71: Sam Ikari, Hiroshi Tanabe and Sam Matsukawa.
72: "Tough Guy," Don Seki (Shigeru Goto on the left).
73: "Lt. Smith on tour drops in at hospital." Stanley Takemoto, Wallace Doi, Don Seki, Masaru Miyoshi, Lt. Smith, and Willie Oshiro at Bushnell Hospital.
74: Lily "Kuipo" Yasuda.
75: Don Seki and friend lying on the grass.
76: Group of amputee buddies at Bushnell Hospital. "War hero or liability on taxpayers?"
77: "Herbert, 15 AAF."
78: Men and women on furlough at the University of Hawaii Newsroom, 1945. Caroline Dizon, Martha Nitta, Pfc Noboru Seki, Staff Sgt. Wallace Doi, Lt. Robert Kadowaki, Helen Uyematsu.
79: Wallace Doi leaving Italy on the Hospital ship headed for home.
80: Bushnell General Hospital, Brigham City, Utah, 1943.
81: Wallace Doi resting on a train. "If thou snoozeth, thou looseth."
82: Doi and other injured soldiers at Bushell Hospital. Joe Lim, Don Seki, and Wallace Doi at Bushnell Hospital.
83: Kay Kagami of San Pedro, California, in a relocation camp in Jerome, Arkansas.
84: "Kiyoshi Kawata, Tami Takagi, Hersh Aramaki, and Wallace Doi get together at Tats Masuda's home."
85: Hersh Aramaki, Kiyoshi Kawata, Tami Takagi, and Wallace Doi at Tats Masuda's home. "Common seven"
86: Lettermen General Hospital.
87: Wallace Doi, Willie Higa and Joe Lim at Bushnell Hospital.
88: Chaplain Yamada of the 442nd Infantry.
89: Chaplain Yamada of the 442nd Infantry with his family.
90: "Earl Finch, Hattisburg Mississippi. Stopped to visit Wallace at Aloha Fountain in Salt Lake City, Utah, 1947."
91: Kiyoji Kanegai with Kimie Doi.
92: Victory Ball for the 100th Battalion in the Coconut Grove Ballroom, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 14, 1944.
93: Doi and Harry Okada at the Bushnell General Hospital, Brigham City, Utah, 1944.
94: Don Seki, Willie Oshiro, Hiroshi Hirai, Harry Okada, Wallace Doi, Mary Doi, and Willie Higa.

Dates

early 1900s-1970s

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