0:00 - Working at the YMCA cafeteria the day of Pearl Harbor attack / Volunteered as Block Warden during curfew-ed blackouts
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6:26 - Reluctant to volunteer for American military service -- Recruited into the Military Intelligence Service (Section 5) / Studied in the bathroom after hours at Camp Savage
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Keywords: "detention center"; 442nd Regimental Combat Team; aptitude test; brother; Camp Savage; Camp Shelby; concentration camp; Farrington High School; Hawaii; Hawaii Mission Academy; interpreter; Japanese sympathizer; military service; Minnesota; Mississippi; Nisei; Non-Commissioned Officer; Okinawa; Pacific War; recruitment; ROTC; Sand Island; Section 5; studying; University of Hawaii; volunteer for service; War Department
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13:50 - Life at Camp Savage, Minnesota was better than at Camp Shelby, Mississippi / Took Infantry Basic Training at Camp Blanding, Florida
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Keywords: 442nd Regimental Combat Team; academic training; basic training; brother; Camp Blanding; Camp Savage; Camp Shelby; front lines; Infantry Basic Training; living conditions; Military Intelligence Service; Military Intelligence Service Language School; Minnesota; MIS; Mississippi; West Coast
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17:21 - Army allowed him to be assigned to same outfit as his brother / Groups of ten Nisei MIS language teams assigned to each military division
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Keywords: 96th Infantry Division; brother; Company Headquarters; division; English language; Haole; Hawaii; language team; military policy; Navy ship; Okinawa campaign; outfit; Philippine Campaign; Schofield Barracks; sister; Solomon Brothers; South Pacific; unit
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20:11 - First assignment was Invasion of Leyte, Philippines
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22:36 - Assisted in military recon for Invasion of Okinawa
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