0:00 - Coaxed natives out of caves by speaking Okinawan language
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1:42 - Caught a Japanese Colonel's bluff during an interrogation / Identified Japanese school teacher (Sensei) at a Prisoner of War Camp / Emotional reunion with Okinawan classmates
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Keywords: American GI; civilian; civilian camp; classmates; Colonel; D Ration; Division Headquarters; engineer; interrogation; interviews; Japanese Army; Japanese civilian; Japanese officer; Military Intelligence Service Language School; MP; Okinawa; Okinawan language; POW camp; prisoners of war camp; school teacher; Sensei; surrender; village; Yamachi
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13:09 - Grateful to have been sent to the Pacific Theater to help his native people
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14:25 - Visited Aunt in Shimabuku who was housing 300 Okinawan evacuees
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19:24 - On the way to Philippines for R&R when Pacific War ended -- Assigned to Korea to interrogate Japanese evacuees / Returned home to Hawaii -- Continued education, worked as a butcher, job as internal revenue agent
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Keywords: air bombing; atomic bomb; Battle of Okinawa; butcher; Division Headquarters; education; evacuees; Farrington High School; GI Bill; grocercy store; Hiroshima; internal revenue; interrogate; Kimpo Airfield; Korea; Korean War; Kyushu; Manchuria; Meiji Emperor; Mindoro; Mongolia; Nagasaki; North Korea; Philippines; R&R; Rest and Recooperation; university; war is over
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25:01 - Discharged from the Army in January 1946 / Happy to be reunited with family in Hawaii
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