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Wartime letter made public

LOS ANGELES, United States - Banzai Derango, 74, of Oakland, Calif., holds the envelop and letter sent to a Japanese soldier by her sister-in-law in 1943. Derango has kept the unopened letter since finding it among the wreckage of a destroyed building on the Pacific island of Saipan in 1944.

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Wartime letter released 55 years later

LOS ANGELES, United States - The photo shows a copy of an envelop and letter sent to a Japanese soldier during World War II, which was made public by Banzai Derango, 74, of Oakland, Calif. The December 1943 letter, sent by Tokyo resident Hinako Hiramine to her brother-in-law Choji Nakamata, then stationed in Kolonia, Pohnpei, came into possession of Derango while he was posted in the port town of Garapan on Saipan from June to July in 1944.

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Wartime letter made public

LOS ANGELES, United States - Banzai Derango, 74, of Oakland, Calif., holds the envelop and letter sent to a Japanese soldier by her sister-in-law in 1943. Derango has kept the unopened letter since finding it among the wreckage of a destroyed building on the Pacific island of Saipan in 1944.