Inyo County

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Giichi Matsumura and His Family have been in the Manzanar internment camp during the second World War

A skeleton found in California last October, it was found that a Japanese-American artist, in a World War Two internment camp

Giichi Matsumura, went on a hike with the other internees from the internment camp Manzanar for people of Japanese descent, as he died in August 1945.

He left The Group to paint The Scene , in loneliness, when a freak storm hit.

Mr. Matsumura received a sparse funeral in The Mountains , and the details of his death were eventually to make up for lost time.

However, in the last year, he was re-discovered.

'The Ghost of Manzanar'

Tyler Hofer and Brandon Follin were Hiking in the vicinity of Mount Williamson , when they came across an intact skeleton, partially covered by stones.

According to the Associated Press , the skeleton of a belt around the waist, leather shoes on the feet, and his arms crossed over the chest, had.

the officers of the Inyo County Sheriff ' s Office, local police, back searched their records for the Missing Person , dating decades and someone could find matching the description of the skeleton.

But, Mr. Matsumura's story was given back stronger in 2012, when a documentary came about the camp Manzanar. Although a segment of his death, it had to speak not in the finished film, director Cory Shiozaki would, in demonstrations.

Matsumuras were forced to leave their homes in 1942, Manzanar

officers arrested conducted DNA Tests on the skeleton, with a sample of Mr Matsumura granddaughter Lori.

Lori Matsumura told the Associated Press that she knew that her grandfather remains in The Mountains somewhere, because her grandmother would show her a photo of the pile of stones that covered his body.

her aunt, Kazue, told her that he was known as "The Ghost of Manzanar".

Caught in a storm

Manzanar was one of 10 internment camps by the U.S. government during the second World War , to arrest you, of Japanese origin people in the United States.

According to historical records, the residents would often sneak out of the camp, fishing or other Hobbies. But at the time, Mr. Matsumura and his group had with the US on this hike, the government raised its exclusion orders and the inmates of the camp should.

In a Statement , the Sheriff's office, said Mr. Matsumura had a group of fishermen from the camp who wanted to go to the mountain lakes of the Sierra Nevada in the vicinity.

After a while, he left The Group , so that he officers say could paint and draw as a hobby, he had to Manzanar.

A Buddhist funeral service was held for Mr. Matsumura, after his body was A storm, buried in The Mountains

all of a sudden. After it subsided, The Group tried and failed to find him.

Mr Matsumura's body was found finally at the 3. September, 1945, by a local couple who were Hiking in The Mountains .

Hiking A few days later, Manzanar officials under the leadership of a small group of his body up to the area and buried, because it was "too high", down from the mountain.

"The Matsumuras, how many families are imprisoned, during The War , he had to go back to a home or business, and so drove them to continue to live in Manzanar, to the government, the camp was permanently closed on March 21. November 1945", said the sheriff's office said in a Statement .

Manzanar is now maintained as a museum and a monument to

Then she added, the Matsumura family returned to Santa Monica , where she had lived before the U.S. army was forced, they made their home three years earlier.

Manzanar Superintendent Bernadette Johnson, said she heard "shocked", the Wanderer, the Lord Matsumura's was found the grave last year.

"We hope that His Family some closure and Peace Now that a positive identification has been made," she added.

The camp is now maintained as a museum and a monument to those who were interned there.

japan, united states, california, world war two

Source of news: bbc.com