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Box 8

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Scrapbook

 Item — Box: 8, Object: 1
Identifier: 2011.042.8
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The military records, service medals and insignia, photo albums, scrapbook and personal ephemera of George Akira Doi, who served during WWII in the 100th Infantry Division, an otherwise all-white unit. He saw combat in Europe and was decorated as “unquestionably the company’s best soldier.” George Akira Doi was the maternal grandfather of Kristi Yamaguchi (Olympic Gold Medalist figure skater).

Dates: 1941 - 1990; Majority of material found within 1941 - 1946