0:00 - Living conditions at Pomona Race Track / Sister stayed back in California after contracting Tuberculosis -- Visited her on furlough

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Keywords: brothers; California; Camp Shelby; furlough; living conditions; Mississippi; Nisei; Nisei soldiers; Pomona Assembly Center; Pomona Race Track; sister; Tuberculosis (TB)

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3:39 - Life at Pomona Race Track / Transferred to Heart Mountain concentration camp -- Blinds closed during train ride

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Keywords: armed guards; Heart Mountain; internment camp; Japanese American community; mess hall; Pomona; prison; sentries; sports; train; Wyoming

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9:28 - Living conditions at Heart Mountain

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Keywords: armed guards; barbed wire; barracks; cold winters; concentration camp; dusty; GIs; guard towers; Heart Mountain; hot summers; living conditions; potbelly stove; sentry outposts

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15:00 - Finished high school credits in camp -- Discouraged from standing up for diploma at graduation ceremony

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Keywords: barrack; concentration camp; diploma; graduating class; graduation; Heart Mountain; high school

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16:19 - Ice skating in camp during the winter / Topping sugar beets in Hardin, Montana

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Keywords: concentration camp; daikon; farm; farming; high school; ice rink; ice skating; Montana; recreation halls; social structures; socialization; sugar beet farm; sugar beets; topping sugar beets

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21:08 - Working for the Heart Mountain Fire Department -- Ate good food / Formation of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and 100th Infantry Battalion

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Keywords: 100th Infantry Battalion; 442nd; 442nd Regimental Combat Team; baseball; European Theater; Fire Department; firemen; Heart Mountain; mess hall; overseas; volunteers

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27:09 - Brothers also worked at the Fire Department / Answered "Yes/Yes" on loyalty questionnaire

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Keywords: "No-No"; "Yes-Yes"; brothers; concentration camp; father; Fire Department; loyalty questionnaire; mess hall; Nisei; Question 27; Question 28

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