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Main Street, Visalia, California, in the flood of 1955-56. Pictured are Tom's furniture store, and the Lucky Auto Supply Store, on the corner of Main and Garden Streets. In the background are the Grand Theater and (on the corner of Main and Church…

Sgt. Bill Ishida (second from right) is pictured with character actor Lee Tracy (brother of Spenser Tracy) the week of February 15, 1943. Tracy and Ishida were assigned to recruit Japanese Americans for U. S. military service in the 442 Regimental…

Bill and Thomas Agaki are pictured planting orange trees near Lindsay, California, in 1939.

Harotarn Ishida is pictured standing in his orange grove near Lindsay, California, in 1940.

U. S. Army Sgt. Bill Ishida (center) interrogates Japanese POW Army officers (far left and right) in the Phiippines in 1945. The man in the white shirt is a newspaper man. The officer on the far right surrendered his "very sharp" Samurai sword to…

Aliro Imoto on the ranch near Lindsay in 1940. During World War II he served with the 552 Field Artillery attached to the 442nd.

Aye Ogata (right), Tom Uyeda of Sacramento (foreground) and Bill Ishida in a bomb crater on Bougainville Island late 1944 or 1945. Bougainville is part of the Solomon Island group. The bomb was dropped from a "Betty," a two-engine Japanese bomber.…

Sato Ishida, Bill Ishida's grandmother, in 1950, five years before her death in 1955.

Four generations of Harry Nagata's family are pictured in front of the "Lindsay Olive." Harry (in the wheel chair) was 80 at the time of the photo. Bill (?) Ishida's father purchased land in Harry's name to avoid the Alien Land Act.

The Morioka family is gathered in this photo taken in 1934. From left to right are: (front row) James, Tsuru, Mary, Rintaro and Alice. Kinuyo and Yoshikazu are standing.