0:00 - Highest rank reached in ROTC and the responsibilities/Transition to active duty/Training during active duty

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Keywords: 299th Infantry Battalion; 299th Infantry Regiment; A Company; active duty; basic training; cadet captain; company; company commander; federalized; Fort Shafter; Hawaii; Lieutenant; rank; ROTC; Schofield Barracks; teaching

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3:55 - Reasoning behind his training and possibility of war

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Keywords: basic training; Europe; maneuvers; rifles; World War Two

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5:13 - Training in active duty leading up to Pearl Harbor/Questioning some of the decisions by military leaders during his time

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Keywords: 1st Battalion; A Company; air strip; battalion headquarters; Commissioned Officer; Company Commander; defense; Fort Benning; machine guns; Maui; National Guard; operations; plantation; Portuguese; sugar plantation

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11:26 - Location and activities on December 6th and 7th in 1941/Initial reactions to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor/Treatment during and after Pearl Harbor

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Keywords: Americans of Japanese Ancestry; first class; Hawaii; Japanese American soldiers; Lieutenant; luxury liners; ocean; Pearl Harbor; surprise; Swede

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14:46 - Traveling with a friend and fellow officer after Pearl Harbor/First trip to the mainland

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Keywords: camera; friendship; Lieutenant; Los Angeles; Mainland; railroad station

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15:47 - Getting picked up and interrogated by the Los Angeles Police Department while traveling

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Keywords: Fort Benning; interrogate; Los Angeles Police Department; orders; pictures; police; race discrimination; spies; traveling

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17:58 - Impressions of San Francisco/Facing suspicion and discrimination after Pearl Harbor and the start of World War II

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Keywords: Aloha Tower; Axis; Honolulu; Los Angeles; Mainland; race discrimination; San Francisco; skyscrapers; train; travel; World War Two

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20:01 - Experiences traveling cross country from Los Angeles to Georgia/Arriving and experiences at Fort Benning

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Keywords: barracks; Fort Benning; Haole; infantry; Japanese American soldiers; Mainland; motor maintenance; rifles; ship; training

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23:44 - Seeing discrimination for the first time at Fort Benning/Interacting with African American Officers and Caucasian Officers/Finishing at Fort Benning

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Keywords: African American soldiers; barracks; curfew; discrimination; discrimination in the military; Fort Benning; Haole; Jewish soldiers; Nisei; Nisei soldiers; race discrimination; racism; segregation

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