Japanese-American volunteers. First AJA [Americans of Japanese ancestry] volunteer to put on the uniform of the U.S. Army, Mitsuru Doi, eighteen, of Lihue, Kauai, is shown how to buckle on his ammunition belt. Doing the showing is Sergeant John H. Chynoweth, acting first sergeant of the provisional company of Kauai inductees, and nephew of the Brigadier General Chynoweth who was recently awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for his activities in the Philippines even after occupation of the islands by the Japanese
- Digital ID: (intermediary roll film) fsa 8b06605 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b06605
- Reproduction Number: LC-USE6-D-010186 (b&w film neg.)
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
![Japanese-American volunteers. First AJA [Americans of Japanese ancestry] volunteer to put on the uniform of the U.S. Army, Mitsuru Doi, eighteen, of Lihue, Kauai, is shown how to buckle on his ammunition belt. Doing the showing is Sergeant John H. Chynoweth, acting first sergeant of the provisional company of Kauai inductees, and nephew of the Brigadier General Chynoweth who was recently awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for his activities in the Philippines even after occupation of the islands by the Japanese](http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/fsa/8b06000/8b06600/8b06605r.jpg)
