Primarily remembered as one of the titans of mid-century graphic design, S. Neil Fujita’s life was disrupted and marred by World War II and the ramifications of Executive Order 9066.

Music as a powerful expression of a sense of self and community was essential and uplifting for many  incarcerees—as expressions that spread beyond the confines of the Japanese American confinement centers.

A surplus of Army rations and goodwill helped improve the lives of many Europeans impoverished by World War II.

The “Angels of Bataan and Corregidor,” 77 American military nurses taken prisoner in the Philippines, provided lifesaving care to the civilian POWs in the Santo Tomas and Los Banos Internment Camps where they were held from 1942-1945.

In 1946, Pfc. Sadao Munemori became the first Japanese American awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on the Gothic Line during World War II.