Robert Masao Baba Collection

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Title

Robert Masao Baba Collection

Creator

Baba, Robert Masao: collector

Description

Robert Masao Baba arrived in Italy around the time of Germany's surrender. Baba was a member of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Images capture casual activity, travel and sailing on the USS Wilson Victory.

Extent

29 items

Spatial Coverage

Livorno, Italy
Lucerne, Switzerland

Source

Go For Broke National Education Center

Identifier

2014.002

Items in the Robert Masao Baba Collection Collection

"Colonels Francis Hudson Oxx and Miller shaking hands during ceremony"
After the Soldiers' Day Parade. Colonels Francis Hudson Oxx and Miller". Other U.S. soldiers standing on stage behind them.

"Sgt. [Seargent] Robert Masao Baba standing outside of St. Maria Del Soccorso church"
"Sgt. [Seargent] Robert Masao Baba standing outside of the St. Maria Del Soccorso church". Sign on church reads "Catholic Mass 10:30".

"Larry Ogino standing outside of St. [Saint] Maria Del Soccorso church"
Sgt. [Seargent] Robert Masao Baba took this photo of Larry Ogino standing outside the St. [Saint] Maria Del Soccorso church. Schedule of different worships on the wall behind Larry Ogino.

442nd Regimental Combat Team canine mascot "Buddhahead"
Dog in the back of an army truck.

Setsuo Katsuda in uniform in front of barbed wired building
Sgt. [Seargent] Robert Masao Baba took this photo of Setsuo Katsuda. He is standing in front a barbed wired makeshift fence protecting the building behind him.

Captain Ralph S. Adelman ascending the stairs to unknown building
Captain Ralph S. Adelman climbing the stairs to an unknown building.

Robert Uyesaka leaning against a truck
Sgt. Robert Masao Baba took this photo of Robert Uyesaka leaning against a truck.

Sgt. [Seargent] Robert Masao Baba at grave of Victor Hada
Sgt. Robert Masao Baba at grave of Victor Hada. The graveyard contains rows of white crosses for each fallen soldier.

Sgt. [Seargent] Robert Masao Baba with 442nd Regimental Combat Team canine mascot, "Buddhahead"
Sgt.[Seargent] Robert Masao Baba holding puppy mascot "Buddhahead."

George Hamai and Ray Sugai having a cheerful conversation
Robert Masao Baba took this photo of George Hamai and Ray Sugai having a cheerful conversation around trucks.

[Lieutenant General John C. H. Lee riding in car with unknown officer]
Lieutenant General John C. H. Lee riding in a car with an unknown officer. He is heading to relieve the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.

Sgt. [Seargent] Robert Masao Baba with other 442nd Regimental Combat Team members at Mt. [Mount] Vernon, Virginia
Sgt. [Seargent] Robert Masao Baba standing in front of a building at Mt. [Mount] Vernon, Virginia. Other 442nd Regimental Combat Team members sitting in wooden chairs against the building in the background.

Sgt. [Seargent] Robert Masao Baba kneeling in uniform
Sgt. [Seargent] Robert Masao Baba, in uniform, kneeling and in conversation with the photographer.

Larry Ogino and Robert Masao Baba in conversation
Robert Masao Baba on the right. Larry Ogino on the left holding a pipe. Both members of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.

Sgt. [Seargent] Robert Masao Baba next to a military truck
Sgt. [Seargent] Robert Masao Baba in Livorno (Leghorn), Italy. He is posing, right leg perched on the military truck, with cap in hand.

Robert Masao Baba sitting on a fence in Lucerne, Switzerland
Port of Occupation. Image captured in Lucerne, Switzerland of Robert Masao Baba. He is sitting on a fence next to the port.

Robert Masao Baba and group at Camp Shelby
Robert Masao Baba (on the left) with five Japanese American soldiers at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. The image has a decorative border with date.

Robert Masao Baba and Ray Sugai behind a military medical truck
Robert Masao Baba (left) and Ray Sugai (right) standing behind a military medical truck.

Robert Masao Baba and others in military truck
Robert Masao Baba (sunglasses) in truck. Name of soldier on the left unknown. In Livorno (Leghorn), Italy.

2nd Lt. [Lieutentant] Lenneti and 1st Lt. [Lieutenant] Butler returning home from Livorno, Italy

Tom Kawabara and James Kawamoto playing with a dog
At 61st Btn [Batalion] hospital. Tom Kawabara and James Kawamoto, playing with a dog on the side of the road. On the reverse of image: "Leghorn, Italy. June '46. At 61st Btn. Hospital. Tom Kawabara and James Kawamoto."

Female military officials waiting at the Port of Leghorn
Port of Leghorn, Italy, embarkation. Second Lt. [Lieutenant] Mary Klein. Image captured from U.S.S. Wilson.

"Overseeing the day of embarkation"
Day of embarkation. Col. [Colonel] Francis Hudson Oxx. Before embarking on S.S. Wilson.

"Lt. Col. [Lieutenant Colonel] Miller at port of embarkation"
Miller talking with another officer at the port of embarkation to Leghorn, Italy. Japanese American soldiers in background getting belongings ready to board ship.

"Aboard the S.S. Wilson Victory"
Robert Masao Baba is on the right, holding a magazine. Larry Shimada is on the left. On the S.S. Wilson Victory. Likely captured in mid-Atlantic Ocean. Later part of June 1946.

Aboard the S.S. Wilson
John Takayanagi and H. Yamamoto among the nine men standing along the side of the S.S. Wilson. Port of embarkation. Sailing to Leghorn, Italy.

"T/Sgt. [Technical Seargent] Henry Kuniyuki with his camera on train from Camp Kilmer, New Jersey
Technical Seargent Henry Kuniyuki on a train from Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. Image captured by Robert Masao Baba.

Hula dancer on stage performing for American troops
"Johnny Pineapple's Girls giving us the hula at the Outdoor Theatre. Entertainment for returned 442nd [Regimental Combat Team] before going to D.C. to be honored by President Truman."

"Former Assistant Secretary of War, John J. McCloy" on stage
Former Assistant Secretary of War, John J. McCloy standing on stage at the podium. Greeting and honoring the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.

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