0:00 - Experiences during basic training/Going on long marches and hikes/Exhibiting perseverance to get through the hard training

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Keywords: advanced basic training; basic training; cadence; conditioning; exercise; falling out; football player; full pack; hike; maneuvers; marching; Mississippi; sweating; Texan; weapons training

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5:20 - Seeing Mississippi during free time/A kind host that took care of the 442nd soldiers

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Keywords: Camp Shelby; merry; Mississippi; packages; rancher; Southern food; weekend pass

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6:48 - Food he ate and prepared while at Camp Shelby/Trading rations for food with Europeans

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Keywords: Camp Shelby; food; Hawaiian food; Mississippi; okazu; potbelly stove; rations; rice; Southern food; trading

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8:04 - Advanced basic/Relationship with officers/One of his lieutenants being replaced

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Keywords: basic training; cadre; colonel; extra training; Italy; leader; Non-Commissioned Officer; officers; refine; tactics; weapons

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10:39 - Taking leave during basic training and traveling

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Keywords: basic training; leave; Miyako; New York City; restaurant; travel; Washington D.C.

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12:31 - The age of the men he trained and served with

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Keywords: age; age group; Japanese American soldiers

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13:12 - Weapons he was trained to use/Details from advanced basic

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Keywords: 37mm guns; 57mm guns; accurate; advanced basic; Camp Shelby; crew; field; flat trajectory; gliders; pea shooter; training; weapons

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16:59 - Antitank numbers in the 442nd/Length of their training/Feeling anxious to go overseas

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Keywords: 100th Infantry Battalion (Separate); 442nd Regimental Combat Team; advanced basic; Antitank Company; basic training; maneuvers

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19:14 - Traveling overseas

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Keywords: convoy; gambling; Italy; Norfolk; orders; seasick; ship; shipping out; Virginia

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20:32 - Conflict between Hawaiian soldiers and Mainland soldiers/His experience visiting Jerome/Relationship improving between Hawaiian and Mainland soldiers

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Keywords: barbed wire; Buddahead; Camp Shelby; Caucasian; English; Hakujin; Haole; Hawaiian identity; Hawaiian soldiers; incarceration camp conditions; incarceration camps; Jerome; Katonk; Mainland soldiers; mess hall; prison; singing; towers; weekend pass

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26:18 - Memories from his visit to Jerome/Meeting and corresponding with a woman

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Keywords: 442nd Regimental Combat Team; Camp Shelby; correspondence; dance; disabled veteran; incarceration camps; Jerome; letters; Mainland soldiers; Nevada; reunion; San Pedro

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