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Segment Synopsis: He describes Roy Matsumoto's military tactics at the Battle of Napunga Hill. Furumoto states Matsumoto used his previous knowledge of Japanese military terminology to influence their movement towards American fire.

Keywords: Merrill's Marauders; Roy Matsumoto

Subjects: World War II--Military service World War II--Military service--Military Intelligence Service [Matsumoto, Roy (1913-2014) [World War II--Military service--Military Intelligence Service--Merrill's Marauders]

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Segment Synopsis: Furumoto states that all fourteen Americans of Japanese ancestry (AJAs) of Merrill's Marauders survived the combat in Burma.

Keywords: casualties; combat; Merrill's Marauders; Terry Mizutari

Subjects: World War II--Military service World War II--Military service--Military Intelligence Service [World War II--Military service--Military Intelligence Service--Merrill's Marauders]

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Segment Synopsis: He describes the various diseases that he and most of the American troops contracted overseas. They suffered more casualties from the disease - scrub typhus, in particular - than in combat.

Keywords: casualties; diseases

Subjects: World War II--Military service World War II--Military service--Military Intelligence Service [World War II--Military service--Military Intelligence Service--Merrill's Marauders]

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Segment Synopsis: Describes the fighting that took place at Michina Airfield. He also discusses an incident where an American soldier cut off the ear of a Burmese collaborator and American soldiers' acts of retrieving gold teeth from Japanese soldiers' bodies.

Keywords: Chinese soldiers; foxhole; interrogation; Japanese soldiers

Subjects: World War II--Military service World War II--Military service--Military Intelligence Service [World War II--Military service--Military Intelligence Service--Merrill's Marauders]

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Segment Synopsis: Talks about Kenny Yasui, also known as Sergeant "Baby York." He gathered Japanese troops, while impersonating a Japanese officer, and turned them into the American headquarters.

Keywords: Japanese soldiers; Office of War Information (OWI); Prisoners of War (POWs)

Subjects: World War II--Military service World War II--Military service--Military Intelligence Service [World War II--Military service--Military Intelligence Service--Merrill's Marauders]

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Segment Synopsis: Describes his reassignment to China as a part of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). He was assigned to the Black Propaganda project, where he recruited Japanese prisoners of war (POWs) to create Japanese propaganda. He was later reassigned to be in charge of the new interpreters sent from Fort Snelling, Minnesota. They were going to launch an offensive, but V-J Day was declared, ending the war. He was sent to the states, where he got married and returned to college.

Keywords: black propaganda; Chinese soldiers; disease; dual citizenship; Japanese soliders; Office of my Strategic Services (OSS); social activities; V-J Day

Subjects: World War II--Military service World War II--Military service--Military Intelligence Service World War II--Military service--Office of Strategic Services [World War II--End of war--Returning home] [World War II--V-J Day]

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Segment Synopsis: He explains what the Black Propaganda experiment entailed. They produced various types of propaganda and sent them through the Japanese postal system. When he went back to college, he wrote about the Black Propaganda project for a class assignment.

Keywords: black propaganda

Subjects: Education--Higher education World War II--Military service World War II--Military service--Military Intelligence Service World War II--Military service--Office of Strategic Services World War II--Propaganda World War II--Propaganda--U.S. Government Propaganda