WWII - LC-DIG-PPRS-00268 (16613258554)

LC-DIG-ppprs-00268: U.S. Naval Cadet Nurse Kay Fukuda, USNR. Cadet Nurse Fukuda was a Japanese-American. The War Department in November 1943 reclassified American Citizens of Japanese ancestry for military service. Their prior American citizen rights to serve were previously barred after the Pearl Harbor Attack on 7 December 1941. Photograph by Mr. Ansel Adams, 1943. Collections of the Library of Congress.