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Chepatchet, Rhode Island 1941-2 Click here to return to Chikao

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Bob & Yoshimoto? - Cabrillo Beach - August 1941 On the road east, Alabama - September 1941 Bob & Eddie Maeda first meet Ella Hopkins - Fall 1941 Ella's parents Bob & Eddie at the train station Eddie Maeda in Chepatchet, Rhode Island Japanese-American (2nd from right) makes Life Magazine cover!

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Chepatchet, Rhode Island Fall 1942

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At the Providence Station with George Alamo? Merven, Eddie, Vernon, Bob, Freda, Mrs Clemons, Ella, Mrs Hopkins Peck Pond #1 Freda, Merven, Eddie, Bob & George Peck Pond #2 with Ella and gang Peck Pond #3

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Later Years

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Bob would return to build a boat for Peck Pond August 1946 Bob takes his family & Mariko east 1978 - Bob, Vernon & Ella together again!