0:00 - Coaxed natives out of caves by speaking Okinawan language

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Keywords: cave flushing; caves; Japanese language; natives; Okinawan language; Okinawan people

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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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Keywords: American soldier; interpreter; Japanese ancestry; military service; Okinawa; Pacific Theater

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14:25 - Visited Aunt in Shimabuku who was housing 300 Okinawan evacuees

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Keywords: "Auntie"; "talk story"; aunt; counterintelligence company; cousin; Division Headquarters; evacuees; Filipino; household; invasion; Military Intelligence Service; MIS; Okinawa; relatives; Shimabuku

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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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Keywords: brother; discharged; Hawaii; homecoming; Korea; peace; Philippines; point system; sister

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