0:10 - No interaction with Italian natives / Germans booby trapped road with mines

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Keywords: booby traps; Bruyeres; Combat Engineer Company; German soldiers; Italy; mines; R&R

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2:33 - Cohesiveness of Nisei soldiers in battle / Taken to field hospital for arm surgery

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Keywords: field hospital; Nisei soldiers; segregated unit; surgery

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5:27 - Received incredible hospitality by Japanese community in Utah / Met a Nisei soldier from Brazil in the hospital -- Visited Brazil to look for him

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Keywords: 442nd Regimental Combat Team; Brazil; Brigham City; Buddhist church; comrades; dance hall; Girl's Club; hospital; hospitality; Italy; JACL; Japanese language; L Company; Nisei soldiers; prejudice; Utah; veteran organization; wounded in action

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10:28 - Received a prosthetic arm from San Francisco hospital / Dinner with General Stillwell / V-mail used for correspondence in the military

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Keywords: Fort Shafter; General Stillwell; Honolulu; hospital; Japanese Americans; L Company; Military Intelligence Service; MIS; prosthetic arm; San Francisco; Stars & Stripes newspaper; Utah; V-mail

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13:43 - Visited wounded Nisei soldiers in the hospital -- Brought them whiskey / Close friend from L Company was a Sansei from Kauai

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Keywords: 100th Infantry Battalion (Separate); 442nd Regimental Combat Team; hospital; Issei; L Company; Nisei; Sansei; whiskey; wounded in action

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16:43 - General Dahlquist and the Rescue of the Lost Battalion / Prisoners of War received Purple Hearts

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Keywords: Colonel Young Oak Kim; General Dahlquist; I Company; Prisoner of War; Purple Heart; Rescue of the Lost Battalion; suicide mission; wounded in action

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18:29 - Day after V-J Day -- Caucasian guys picked a fight with him and buddy

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Keywords: barbershop; Brigham City; discrimination; end of war; Hakujin; Ogden; San Francisco; Senator Daniel Inouye; Utah; V-J Day

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20:59 - San Francisco General Hospital -- Casualties of plane crash were 442nd RCT veterans / Took civil service job in Japan to see parents

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Keywords: 442nd Regimental Combat Team; civil service; Fukushima; Hawaii; homecoming; hospital; Japan; New Jersey; prosthetic arm; San Francisco; West Coast

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23:48 - Contributions of the 442nd Regimental Combat / Difficulty finding a place to live on the Mainland

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Keywords: 442nd Regimental Combat Team; apartment; discharged; discrimination; Nikkei

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25:07 - Civil service job in post-war Japan

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Keywords: air field; civil service; Issei parents; Japan; Korean War; Nisei; post-war Japan; Tokyo Station; train

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