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Ora Fong's children on the first day of school in 1960. The photo was taken in front of their home at 4217 Judy Lane, Visalia, California. Left to right are: Stephanie, Michael, Julia and Randall Fong.

View of 1955-56 floods in downtown Visalia, California, shows Main Street under water. The photo was taken from near Garden Street, looking toward the west. Gong's Meat Market can be seen (left center) near the corner of Main and Chirch Streets.

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.