0:26 - Met his friend Ocean during basic training

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Keywords: Army buddy; basic training; campaign

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1:29 - Visiting family on furlough when notified about Pearl Harbor attack

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Keywords: correspondence; letters; Little Tokyo; Pearl Harbor; radio broadcast; relatives in Japan; Whittier

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5:43 - Younger brothers drafted and sent to Occupation of Japan / Return to Camp Roberts after Pearl Harbor attack

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Keywords: barracks; Japan; Korea; Korean War; Little Tokyo; occupying forces; South Pacific; trench

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8:13 - Journey to Arkansas with other Japanese American enlisted men

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Keywords: box cars; Camp Robinson; Little Rock; train

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10:47 - Segregation in Little Rock, Arkansas / Natives in Arkansas had never seen Orientals

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Keywords: basic training; Blacks; Camp Robinson; chop sui; Eskimo; Indian; Nisei; racial discrimination

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15:43 - Visited Issei parents at Rohwer Relocation Center

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Keywords: basic training; Camp Robinson; Camp Shelby; incarceration camp; Jerome; Little Rock; Mississippi; USO

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17:10 - Had to maintain Camp Robinson while Caucasian soldiers were sent overseas / Went through basic training three times

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Keywords: 442nd Regimental Combat Unit; combat; Little Rock; replacements; squad leader

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20:33 - Responsible for providing medical discharge papers to soldiers at Camp Robinson / Experience with discrimination in the military

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Keywords: Caucasian soldiers; commanding officer; discrimination; Nisei soldiers; unfit for service; volunteer for service

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23:38 - Process of medical discharge for soldiers unfit for duty

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Keywords: barracks; civilian status; handicap; hatchet; rehabilitation; subsistence pay

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27:41 - Escorted Nisei soldier home after medical discharge

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Keywords: Amache; civilian hospital; firearms; internment camp; mess hall; Non-Commissioned Officers; woods

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