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TITLE Original Handwritten Order DESCRIPTION Original Handwritten Order Col. Pence Orders, establishing Japanese-American unit, 100/442, along with engineers, etc. Signed by Col. Charles W. Pence. Assuming command of the 442d Regimental Combat Team, activated February 1943 in Camp Shelby, Mississippi. CREDIT Courtesy of National Japanese American Historical Society DATE July 1943 |