0:00 - Basic training at Camp Robinson

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Keywords: Arkansas; draft; family; Non-Commissioned Officer; Pearl Harbor; rifle

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1:57 - Sent to Camp Crowder, Missouri -- Selected to work for the finance detachment

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Keywords: Camp Savage; college education; Nisei; ROTC; Signal Corps

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4:21 - Recruited to the Military Intelligence Service Language School at Camp Savage, Minnesota

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Keywords: country; Kibei; Minneapolis; Nisei; recruitment

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7:02 - Complimented by John Aiso while studying at the Military Intelligence Service Language School

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Keywords: Camp Savage; discrimination; Harvard Law School; Japanese language; latrine; Military Intelligence Service; Nisei; principal

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10:31 - Layover in San Francisco before shipping to the South Pacific

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Keywords: Angel Island; Berkeley; Chinatown; football; Fort Snelling; Manhattan Project; Military Intelligence Service Language School

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13:06 - Visited parents in Topaz Concentration Camp before shipping overseas / Capturing enemy soldiers in the Philippines

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Keywords: barracks; desert; execution; furlough; living conditions; military uniform; tar paper; weather

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16:46 - Irony of entering Topaz Concentration Camp in American uniform / Saying good-bye to Issei parents before going overseas

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Keywords: 4F; barbed wire; civilians; Delta; father; guard tower; machine guns; mother

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20:58 - Translation work in New Caledonia at Bull Halsey's US Navy headquarters

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Keywords: Japanese language; linguists; Nisei; Noumea; overseas; Philippines; South Pacific

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23:23 - First war experience -- Air raids in Bougainville / Second Battle of Bougainville -- Story of captured Japanese soldier

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Keywords: airstrip; beachhead; foxhole; pillboxes; Prisoner of War; replacements; US Marines; wounded in action

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