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The USS Owen transports pigs to Okinawa during postwar relief efforts. A group of Okinawans in Hawaii raised more than $50,000 within six months, which is approximately $526,000 in today's economy, and bought 550 pigs from Omaha, Nebraska, to be shipped from Portland, Oregon, to Okinawa. (Photo courtesy of Shinyei Shimabukuro, provided by Jon Itomura, grandson of one of the seven Okinawan voyagers)
| Date Taken: | 01.18.2019 |
| Date Posted: | 01.22.2019 21:10 |
| Photo ID: | 5038785 |
| VIRIN: | 190118-O-PP334-001 |
| Resolution: | 2089x2132 |
| Size: | 2.9 MB |
| Location: | HI, US |
| Web Views: | 80 |
| Downloads: | 3 |
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Okinawa, Hawaii reflect on postwar relief efforts, reaffirming spirit of Yuimaaru
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