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Pacific Citizen article titled "Chicago Nisei Lieutenant Finds Mother, Brother Alive in Atom-Bombed City of Hiroshima," Dec. 8, 1945.

Courtesy of Densho, the Cherry Kinoshita Collection

Densho ID: ddr-densho-121-4

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