Chapter One Figure Pictured

Thanks to Lompoc's Jim Sloan, we are now able to present a picture of Noboru Wakumoto as he looked in 1941 when he escorted Chiyo Iwamoto to the Lompoc High School Prom. This took place one week after Wakumoto competed at the Japanese-American Olympics at San Francisco's Kezar Stadium and served as the basis for Chapter One of Vanished.

                                            Noboru Wakumoto on the Lompoc
                                                  High athletic field.  

Next week we will return to the still-unidentified photographs from the files of the Lompoc Police Department. .