0:00 - Call for volunteers from incarceration camps -- Received draft notice

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Keywords: 4C Classification; draft resisters; enemy alien; military service; mother; Nisei; reclassification; volunteer for service

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2:59 - Inducted into the Army at Fort Douglas / Sent to Camp Shelby for basic training

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Keywords: 442nd Regimental Combat Team; Aleutians; cadre; fights; furlough; Mississippi; overseas; Salt Lake City

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6:54 - Returning to Minidoka on furlough / Feelings about going overseas

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Keywords: European Theater; incarceration camp; mother; Nisei soldier

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9:12 - Interactions with Nisei soldiers from Hawaii / Leisure activities at Camp Shelby

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Keywords: basic training; cadre; cards; correspondence; Hawaiian Nisei; incarceration camp; laundry room; Mainland Nisei

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13:24 - Shipped out of Camp Shanks, New York on the Queen Mary / Landed in France -- Transported on Red Ball Express to meet the 442nd Regimental Combat Team

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Keywords: Fort Meade; L Company; Maryland; overseas; replacements; Repo Depot; Washington D.C.

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18:12 - Sent to the Champagne Campaign in Southern France

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Keywords: battles; casualties; Italy; Lost Battalion; replacements; training; veterans

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20:50 - Part of BAR rifle company sent to Gothic Line / Closeness with squad mates

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Keywords: 92nd Infantry Division; Browning Automatic Rifle; L Company; replacements; sniper; squad leader; veteran reunion; wounded in action

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27:01 - Breaking German Army's position on the Gothic Line

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Keywords: casualties; Central Italy; Italian partisans; mountain range; Mt. Folgorito; sniper

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