0:00 - Commands given in Japanese

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Keywords: "susume"; "tokkan"; "totsugeki ni"; advance; attack; charge; English; forward; interpretation; Japanese language; Japanese soldiers; prepare; translation; word

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1:45 - Japanese booby traps

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Keywords: booby trap; casualty; damage; darkness; enemy fire; explosion; expose; grenade; Japanese flag; Japanese soldiers; jungle; night; private first class (PFC); sergeant; sniper; souvenir; trip wire; wounded

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4:45 - Preventing heavy casualties against Japanese forces

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Keywords: animal; casualty; combat; common sense; dialect; engineer; information; lieutenant; machine gun; mule; Myitkyina; night; platoon; private; relieved; replacement; scout; sergeant; ship; sick; single file; soldier; tactician; tactics; trail; training camp

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7:46 - Thoughts on Frank Merrill / Receiving Purple Heart

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Keywords: 475th Infantry; 476th Infantry; bandage; ceremony; commanding officer; doctor; evacuate; Fourteenth General; hero; Hollywood; hospital; infection; Intelligence and Reconnaissance Platoon; interview; Major Frank Merrill; Mars Task Force; New Delhi; Nhpum Ga; pajamas; photograph; platoon; Purple Heart; regional office; Second Battalion; sergeant; sergeant major; Signal Corps; South Carolina; staff meeting; veterans affairs; VIP; Walawbum; wounded

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11:54 - Interrogation / Japanese Eighteenth Division

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Keywords: "gyokusai"; "kiku shidan"; airstrip; ammunition; booklet; capture; Chinese soldiers; Chrysanthemum Division; defeat; demise; dictionary; end; facility; Fukuoka City; garrison; interrogation; Irrawaddy River; Japanese Eighteenth Division; Japanese language; Myitkyina; Nhpum Ga; prisoner; raft; reinforcement; report; retreat; supply; translate; war

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14:23 - Book on Japanese soldiers' perspectives on battle

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Keywords: association; Berkeley; book; booklet; bookstore; Japanese; Japanese Eighteenth Division; Los Angeles; Merrill's Marauders; National Verteras Museum; publication; questionnaire; story; translate; veterans; Washington D.C.

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16:41 - Thoughts on loyalty and defending one's country

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Keywords: "no-no boy"; American; apologize; army terminal; article; Berkeley; camp; coward; defense worker; Emperor of Japan; forgive; Fukuoka; headquarters; Japanese American; Japanese American Citizens League (JACL); Kibei; Kumamoto; loyalty; MIS; nisei village; Northern California; oakland; overseas; Presidio; public housing; resettle; San Francisco; ship builder; Sixth United States Army; traitor; war

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20:37 - Thoughts on the JACL

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Keywords: "Pacific Citizen"; Berkeley; book; club; dues; headquarters; hero; inactive; Japanese American Citizens League (JACL); meeting; member; military; MIS; money; pay; recognition; San Francisco; service; story; Tad Hirota; veterans

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22:39 - Learning Japanese and how it related to duties

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Keywords: Chinese characters; college graduate; compound words; Counterintelligence Corps (CIC); dialect; dictionary; duty; high school; informant; instructor; Japanese American; kambun; Munakata Sensei

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24:43 - Incident with fellow soldier

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Keywords: "gook"; .32 caliber; American; Burma; chevron; communist; corporal; Counterintelligence Corps (CIC); course; court-martial; discrimination; disrespect; double agent; field jacket; headquarters; ignorance; Japanese; master sergeant; mole; OSS; pistol; revolver; senior NCO; shoot; Smith and Wesson; stateside; weapon familiarization

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26:56 - Thoughts on suicide attacks

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Keywords: "tokkotai"; attacks; brainwash; crime; death; Emperor of Japan; hijack; innocent bystanders; kamikaze; New York; passenger; Pentagon; pilot; September 11th; soldier; suicide

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28:18 - Reparations for Japanese Americans

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Keywords: 4-C; apology; Arkansas; compensation; concentration camp; enemy alien; farm; Fort Benning; freedom; Georgia; hall of fame; house; land; letter; liberty; Long Beach; Los Angeles; mistake; President Ronald Reagan; President Roosevelt; relocation; relocation centers; reparations; reporter; tractor; truck

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