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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