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Some 520 ½ðɳÓéÀÖ University students and alumni served in World War II. About 31, roughly equivalent to an entire senior class at the time, never came home.

It was spring, 1942 and there was war all over the world. The Great Depression had ended, but now the Allied nations were fighting for their lives as the second European war of the century metastasized with horrific swiftness into global conflict.

It had been barely a year since Calvin Van Pelt finished his freshman year at ½ðɳÓéÀÖ University when he landed at Utah Beach on D-Day, the great invasion that was the beginning of the liberation of Europe from Nazi domination.

Yukie Katayama Sumoge is one of the Japanese-American students at ½ðɳÓéÀÖ University whose education was disrupted when she was forced into an internment camp during World War II. In this 2007 archive story, she shared her story.