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Shimasaki family posed with their new Chevrolet automobile in 1931. Kurazo Ideta (father is in the driver's seat. Mother Hatsu and baby Walter are in the back seat. Tom is standing (left) and Sam, Atsuko, Fred, Ira and Rinko are on the running board.

Atsuko Shimasaki was named Strathmore High School Valedictorian for her graduating class in 1940. Both her graduation photo and the certificate ae pictured here. She went on to graduate from the University of Missouri.

Atsuko Shimasaki (here in her graduation photo) graduated from the University of Missouri in 1944. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

The Shimasaki family arrived in the Jerome, Arkansas, Internment Camp in the fall of 1943.

The Jerome Relocation Center was in Denson, Arkansas. Here Fred Shimasaki and Kiyo Renze are pictured in fron the the Denson Post Office.

Ira Shimasaki taught a high school class at the Jerome Internment Camp in Arkansas. He is pictured with the class in 1943.

The Boy Scout troop from the Jerome Internment Camp in Arkansas, enjoyed an outing in 1943. Fred Shimasaki (far left) was the scoutmaster.

This 1944 class photo was taken in either the Jerome or the Rohwen Internment Camp in 1944. Joe Shimasaki, who was possibly in the 7th grade at the time, is pictured in the top row, seconf from the left.

People who lived in Block 27 in Rohwen Relocation Camp, McGhee, Arkansas, are pictured in the group photo taken in 1945. The Shimasaki family lived in this block.

Fred Shimasaki was in Army Military Police training at Camp Wheeler, Georgia, in January 1945. He later served with his brother, Sam, in Belgium. He is shown in uniform.