Earl Burke was born in Sacramento on August 18, 1923 and graduated from McClatchy High School. His only sibling, his older brother, Thomas, served in the Army Air Corps, and was killed on a training mission in Puerto Rico in October of 1942. Earl enlisted in the Army a few . . .

Barbara Covington was born on February 16, 1924 in Sacramento. Her mother's family came to Oroville, California in the 1870s. Her father James William Covington had been president of the NAACP in Sacramento in the 1920s, but died when Covington was 3-1/2 years old. Covington moved with . . .

Robert Kashiwagi was born Feb 11, 1919, in Hayward, California, and grew up 15 miles from Sacramento, in Knights Landing, where his father was foreman on a large rice farm. After graduating from Woodland High School in 1937 he went to work on the farm. His draft number came up . . .

Burnett Miller was born on September 2, 1923 in Sacramento. His father ran a successful lumber business. Miller was a sophomore in ROTC at Santa Clara College when the war began. In May of 1943, he was called to active duty and after basic training entered the Army Specialized Training . . .

William Perkins was born on July 27, 1920 and grew up at 4 Pearl Street in Newport, Rhode Island. In 1943, Perkins was married with four children when he received his draft notice. In April of 1944, he was assigned to McClellan Air Force Base in Sacramento . . .

Susumu Satow was born in 1923, in Mayhew, California and grew up on his family’s 20 acre farm in Sacramento. One of nine children born to Japanese immigrants, his parents sent him and his siblings to Japanese language school after church on Sundays, but he didn’t much like it. He . . .

Harry Schmid was born in 1921, a 5th generation Sacramentan. His father worked for the telephone company and moved the family to Stockton in the mid 1930s, but Schmid returned to Sacramento after high school, got a job as a bookkeeper at the telephone company and studied accounting at Sacramento . . .

Dolores Silva was born in Sacramento in 1924, and grew up in a neighborhood of mostly Portuguese and Japanese families. She began dating Norman Greenslate while they were still in high school, and she wrote to him every day he was fighting in Europe, first as an engineer and then . . .

Walter “Mac” Thompson was born on September 10th, 1924 in Brownsville, Pennsylvania. While a student at West Virginia State College-Charleston, in early November of 1943, he was drafted and for the first time in his life, came face to face with racial segregation. He was the acting corporal in charge . . .

Asako Maida Tukuno was born in 1923 in Oakland, grew up in an ethnically mixed neighborhood in Richmond, California. Her parents, Japanese immigrants, ran a successful flower nursery. She was a freshman at Berkeley in 1941 when Pearl Harbor was attacked. Her parents were forced to leave the West Coast . . .

Tim Tokuno was born and raised on a farm in Palermo, California in the Sacramento Valley. He was one of seven children born to Japanese immigrants, who raised olive and walnut trees. He was drafted six months before Pearl Harbor and tried to go into the Marines, but was told . . .

Sascha Weinzheimer was born February 7, 1933. The daughter and granddaughter of wealthy planters with extensive holdings in California and the Philippines, she lived with her sister and brother, father and mother, uncle, aunt and cousins on a vast sugar plantation in Canlubang, Laguna Province, on the island of Luzon, . . .

Burt Wilson was born January 24, 1933 and grew up in a well to do neighborhood in Sacramento. His father was an engineer at the Luppen and Hawley Plumbing Company. Wilson’s mother and maternal grandparents were German and he had cousins and aunts and uncles in Germany and sent them . . .