Robert S. Kinoshita, M.D. was detained at Heart Mountain. He wrote the Governor of Wyoming on February 3, 1943 requesting to volunteer as a Selective Service Examining Physician for the area. He held an active commission as Captain in the Medical Reserve at the time of the incarceration. Upon consultation, the State Board of Medical Examiners, M.C. Keith, M.D. wrote to Governor Hunt; “I doubt very much if the Wyoming State Board of Medical Examiners would issue a license to a Japanese even if he were qualified professionally and a citizen of U.S.” Governor Hunt’s reply to Dr. Kinoshita; “I beg to advise that Colonel Esmay, State Director of Selective Service, has given to me a memorandum which sets up certain obstacles to your appointment.” “A year later, Dr. Kinoshita was wounded three times while serving as a medical officer on southern France. By the time the war ended, the man who was “unqualified” for a Wyoming medical license had won two Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star, and a Silver Star. (Heart Mtn. Sentinel, April 21, 1945).” Hospital: A hospital was built in the northeast corner of the camp in compliance with Army regulations. It consisted of seventeen separate barracks connected by one long hall, approximately one thousand feet long. “A person standing at the door of the main office was not recognizable at the door of Ward 0, so great was the distance. Windows on both sides of the hall made it furnace hot in summer and icy cold in winter.” Remembers nurse Velma Berryman Kessel. Etc...