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The Journey of the Kashiwagi Siblings Bob, George, June and Tom

Incarceration to Liberation. The Journey of the Kashiwagi Siblings Bob, George, June and Tom. Christine Umeda. George, Robert and Chiyo Kashiwagi - Hayward, CA -1926. Tatsu and Frank Kashiwagi. Amache, Colorado – Granada Relocation Center. 100/442 nd Regimental Combat Team (RCT).

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The Journey of the Kashiwagi Siblings Bob, George, June and Tom

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  1. Incarceration to Liberation The Journey of the Kashiwagi Siblings Bob, George, June and Tom Christine Umeda

  2. George, Robert and Chiyo Kashiwagi - Hayward, CA -1926 Tatsu and Frank Kashiwagi

  3. Amache, Colorado – Granada Relocation Center

  4. 100/442nd RegimentalCombat Team (RCT) U. S. Army made up of Americansof Japanese ancestry • 442nd Infantry Regiment • 100th Infantry Battalion • 552nd Field Artillery Battalion • 232nd Combat Engineer Company

  5. 1943 volunteered 442nd RCT, 552nd Field Artillery Battalion George Kashiwagi

  6. 1943 volunteered – 442nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Platoon, Company K Robert Kashiwagi

  7. November 1943 - U.S. Army Nurses Corps Iseko June Kashiwagi

  8. 1944 - drafted General Patton’s, 3rd Armored Battalion, (tank division) TomKashiwagi

  9. 552nd Field Artillery Battalion - Fastest/most accurate fire - US Army

  10. Late April 1945 - forward observers – opened path through enemy positions – supported 7 different Army Divisions/units

  11. April 29, 1945 • Liberation of Dachau Sub-Camp by 552nd Field Artillery Battalion

  12. 552nd liberates sub-camps at Dachau • George (552nd) takes down the German flag after the opening of the gates to Dachau • Tom (3rd Armored) supports 552nd • Brothers meet at Dachau • George gives the flag to brother, Tom for safe keeping

  13. “Unintentional Liberators” • “We weren’t supposed to be there” Staff Sgt. George Oiye

  14. Helping Dachau Survivors • Photo by Lt. Sus Ito

  15. Seeing Asian Soldierson “death” march to Dachau • Ernie Hollenback – Asian looking soldiers in American uniform racing towards Dachau • Yanina Cywinska – blindfolded – heard men speaking in unfamiliar English – Hawaiian Pidgin. Surprised to see very short Asian soldiers in US uniforms.

  16. S. Donald Shimazu “To this day, there are some who are beginning to say Dachau never happened, and there’ll be those who will try to distort things in the future, too. But we were there, and we saw it. We saw the people with our own eyes. And so if anybody says it never happened, we will say they don’t know what they’re talking about.”

  17. Biggest Ironies of WW II • WWII – idealized as a war of democracy over fascism yet ironic that some of the liberators were American people of color. • 552nd members volunteered/drafted from incarceration centers. • Buchenwalk liberated by African American soldiers few weeks before Dachau.

  18. Tom and George meet each other after VE Day

  19. George Kashiwagi, Tom Kashiwagi, Bob Kashiwagi

  20. Resource and References • “Go For Broke” – 1982, Go For Broke, Inc. • Go For Broke National Education Center, LA, CA • U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, LA, CA • Museum of Tolerance, New York • “552nd Vets bear witness to Dachau horror” –Star Bulletin, Hawaii • Liberation of Dachau by Japanese Americans 552nd Field Artillery Battalion 442nd RCT April 29,1945 – Burt Takeuchi • Personal accounts: Robert and Tom Kashiwagi

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