0:00 - Hawaiians in the unit

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Keywords: boxing; English; fight; friends; Hawaii; Hawaiian Pidgin; Nisei; Pidgin; spar

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1:48 - Training at Camp Shelby/ Reports of the 100th Infantry Battalion

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Keywords: 100th; 1943; active; “Don’t Fence Me In”; “Over There, Over There”; backpack; base; Camp Shelby; Caucasian 34th division; farm; favorite songs; field artillery; fighters; fighting power; force march; heavy casualties; hikes; in shape; infantry; Italy; jokes; machine gun section; marches; May 1944; newspaper; purple heart division; rain; rain coat; reports; rifle range; scared; shells; shipped overseas; songs; strong; training; war

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8:07 - Embarkation and first sight of war/ Role of machine gunners

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Keywords: 100th; Anzio; Bari; battery; battle; birthday; bombers; boxcar; breaks; Colliseum; combat; debris; defense; embarkation point; field artillery; first day; German; German infiltration; Greece; guns; heavy machine platoon; Italy; June 26; Liberty; machine gun; machine gunners; marchAllied Forces; May 1944; Naples; overseas; pass; preparation; propeller; protect Howitzers; Rome; rough seas; ruins; sea sick; ship; shipping out; spared; sunken ships; train; war

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13:35 - First combat and casualties/ Emotional ramifications of discrimination

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Keywords: angry; “die in vain”; basic training; battle; bayonet; bloated; Buddha head; casualty; Caucasians; dead soldier; decay; discriminated; discrimination; field artillery; field hospital; fight; firing; first combat experience; fox hole; German; German soldier; grave marker; hate; helmet; Jap; machine gun; mad; malaria; mine; mortar; mosquito; Nisei; questioning; rifle; scared; service; shells; smell; soldier; sorrow; summer; tarp; tripped booby trap; unwounded; week; wind

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18:18 - Bathing during wartime/ Scouting a cabin

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Keywords: advancing; alone; bath; battle; captain; Captain Radcliff; clear; cover; creek; doubt; duck; flush out; front line; German infiltration; German stragglers; guns; helmet; Howitzer; hygiene; infantry; log cabin; luxury; machine gun; mines; Nisei; officer; position; protect; reconnoiter; rest; scared; scout; set in; shower; shower unit; soap; sponge bath; traveling; troops; water

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23:50 - Good and bad officers

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Keywords: asleep; bad officer; battery; Captain Radcliff; commendation; congenial; cooperation; every day; good; good officer; guard duty; Hakujin; Lieutenant Roger Irely; machine gunner; mental break; officers; reprimand; rifle; sentry; sentry duty; sleepy; smart; tried; trouble; turns; vegetable; verbal remark

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27:56 - Battle fatigue and sleeping in strange places

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Keywords: aircraft protection; battle fatigue; Caucasian units; furlough; machine gunner; machine guns; marching; planes; rain; rain coats; sleeping; tiredness

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