We've Got The County Covered
We've Got The County Covered
The German POWs were housed their first year in the Chinook area in tents pictured in this October, 1944 photo taken at the fairgrounds. Tom Matsuoka, who was raising sugar beets on shares with Gus Lundeen, would pick up the prisoners from this location each morning and take the priosners to the farm west of town.
Reporter's note: I appreciate when readers catch and share a mistake in an article I've written. Sometimes I make a serious misinterpretation of the facts and sometimes it's a less critical inaccuracy-like an incorrect date or the slightly misspelled name of a person or a place. Still, I like to put things right if I can.
In the June 1, 2016 story about the Japanese families that came to Blaine County during World War II, much of the war-time experiences of the Tom Matsuoka family were described. Alert reader Ty Matsuoka, one of Tom and Kazue's sons and a 1948 graduate of Chinook High, caught...
