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The monuments at the Rohwer Relocation Center honoring the Japanese-Americans interned at the camp located on Highway 1 between Back Gate and McGehee.  Visible to the left in the background are gravestones of some of the individuals who died while interned there.  To the right in the background behind the monument is the top of an old outhouse that was still standing in 2003 when this picture was taken.  Also still standing is a smokestack located approximately a mile away that was near the camp hospital and is now the site of the Delta Special School District.

 

Abe Dengoro

1882-1944

Nakamura Tokuye

1897-1944

Kowata Takefhi

1890-1943

Harada Tom Yuji

1867-1943

Matsuda Matagoro

1872-1942

Hashimoto Zenjiro

1882-1943

Kunishi Saijiro

1867-1943

Ogawa Masuyemarion

1926-1943

Goto Tozaimon

1860-1943

Fukushima Genkinchi

1876-1944

Matsumoto Shintaro

1877-1944

Yoshimoto Kasaburo

1872-1943

Fukui Kisaburo

1868-1943

Kagacva Asaomary

1891-1943

Kabafhima Naozo

1870-1942

Aoki Hidekichi

1881-1943

Nakayama Yoshikichi

1882-1943

Sano Ingant

1943

Tasuyi Ingant

1943

Masaki

1942

Omura Yoshino

1897-1943

Asai Tohachi

1879-1942

Sueymatsu Yoahitaro

1875-1943

Aoki Hidekichi

1881-1943

Papy (Hobo ? an American)

 

 

 

A marker dedicated to the men from the Rohwer center who gave their lives to America on foreign soil, as follows:

 

Pvt. Sumuku Okura

France

Pfc. Masuto Sokado

France

Pfc. George Saito

France

Pfc. Calvin Saito

Italy

Sgt. Zenichi Masuda

Italy

Sgt. Togo Sugivama

Italy

Sgt. Rova Shimatsu

Italy

Sgt. Tedt Fanouye

Italy

Cpl. Yoshinori Sakai

France

Sgt. Seichi Nakamoto

France

Pfc. Bob Kameoka

France

Cpl. George Nakamura

France

Pfc. Kotanaka

France

Pfc. Masaru Toshima

France

Pfc. George Omawawa

France

Pfc. Minoru Yoshido

France

Pfc. Fred S. Yasuda

France

Pfc. Cooper Tuhara

France

Pfc. Kay K. Masaoka

France

Pfc. Takeokaneichi

France

Pfc . Joe Mishimoto

France

Pfc. Akira Otsubo

France

Sgt. Stanley Ichiki

Germany

Cpl. Toshio Hozaki

Italy

Pvt. Takeo Ninomuja

Italy

Pfc. Tatuo Yoshizaki

Italy

Sgt. William Inamoto

Italy

Cpl. Robert Kishi

Italy

Sgt. Iwaotakahachi

Italy

Cpl. George Kawano

Italy

 

Inscription on huge marker as follows: May the people of Arkansas keep in beauty and reverence this ground where our bodies sleep.  (CC note: Grounds are maintained by American Legion Post Walter Hall #84 in Dumas.)

 

 


In memory of our sons who sacrificed their lives in the service of their country.  They fought for Freedom.  They died that the World might have peace.

 

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