Partial Transcript: At Camp Savage, Yoshio is assigned to Headquarter Company and does clerical work. He does morning reports and supplies inventory. Morning report is checking and recording schedules of soldiers. When a new outfit comes to Camp Savage, Yoshio makes sure they are well equipped with supplies. Yoshio is inducted into the Army in 1941. Yoshio recalls John Aiso being inducted at the same time because he sees him at Fort MacArthur. Later Yoshio goes to Fort Ord for basic training. John Aiso is at basic training too.

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Keywords: basic training; Japanese American soldiers; Japanese Americans; Nisei soldiers

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Partial Transcript: Yoshio goes to Fort Ord for basic training. John Aiso is at basic training too. Later, Yoshio hears John is discharged because there is a ruling if anyone in the Army is 28 years old and over can be discharged. When the war starts, Camp Savage opens, and John stays with the Military Intelligence Service Language School. The Military Intelligence Service is a top-secret unit. Some of Yoshio's friends are at Camp Savage and are shipped overseas.

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Keywords: Camp Savage; Japanese American soldiers; Military Intelligence Service Language School; MISLS; Nisei; Nisei soldiers; World War Two

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Partial Transcript: On the radio news, Yoshio hears about the wins and losses of the war battles. The war is widespread, and it is hard to keep track of the updates. Yoshio says the Nisei in the Military Intelligence Services are accomplishing a lot of work with the Prisoners of War (POWs). The Nisei overseas have to be vigilant of Japanese American soldiers and Japanese soldiers. Yoshio feels the MIS has it rough in the field. If Yoshio is asked to go into the fields, he says he would go.

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Keywords: Japanese American soldiers; Nisei soldiers; Pacific Theater; Prisoners of War; World War Two

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Partial Transcript: Yoshio says Camp Savage is memorable for the cold weather. He recalls snow in June (approximately). Yoshio wears long johns and heavy coats to get used to the cold. At Camp Savage, Yoshio is friends with everyone, but there is no one he is particularly close to.

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Keywords: Camp Savage; Japanese American soldiers; Nisei soldiers; World War Two

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Partial Transcript: When there is free time, Yoshio takes the bus to Minneapolis to eat at a Chinese restaurant. He also goes to the USO and movies. Yoshio discusses his contribution to the war efforts. Yoshio knows his wife before they date because their parents are friends. At Camp Savage, Yoshio goes on furlough to visit his parents in Manzanar, and he starts dating his wife. In June 1944, Yoshio and his wife married in Minneapolis.

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Keywords: Camp Savage; dating; Issei parents; Japanese Americans; Manzanar; Nisei soldiers; social activities; World War Two

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Partial Transcript: In June 1944, Yoshio and his wife get married, and their family members did not come because they were at Manzanar. At the wedding, Yoshio and his wife have about a dozen friends there. In Minnesota, Yoshio's wife does housework. Yoshio does not recall how he learns the war is over or the Peace Treaty signing, but possibly from the radio news. When he hears the war has ended, he hopes to go home soon. However, his wife is pregnant and cannot travel. They stayed in Minneapolis until their daughter was born in January 1945.

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Keywords: family; Japanese American soldiers; Nisei soldiers; post-war; wedding; World War Two

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Partial Transcript: Yoshio's daughter was born in January 1945. They stay in Minneapolis, and he does odd jobs and delivers mail. When the doctor says his daughter is old enough to travel, they return to West Los Angeles. When Yoshio comes home, half a dozen families are living there. After Manzanar, some people have nowhere to go. Therefore some of them who know Yoshio's parents come to live with them. Yoshio discusses the internment camps, and he does not feel it is necessary.

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Keywords: employment; Executive Order 9066; family; interment camp; Japanese Americans; Manzanar; Nisei veterans

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Partial Transcript: Yoshio recalls some Japanese Americans in the same outfit as him being kicked out of the Army after the Pearl Harbor attack. Later, when Yoshio is at Camp Savage at the Military Intelligence Language School, he sees the same people. He thinks they might have reenlisted. Being Japanese American, Yoshio does not feel he received the formal English education he should have received.

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Keywords: Americans of Japanese Ancestry; Issei parents; Japanese Americans; Military Intelligence Service; Military Intelligence Service Language School; Nisei; Pearl Harbor; World War Two

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Partial Transcript: After being placed in camp, Yoshio feels like the Japanese American community has to rebuild what they had. The Japanese American community bonded together and persevered. When Yoshio lives in San Fernando, he recalls the Japanese community came together to build the Cultural Center. He says it did not take long.

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Keywords: Americans of Japanese Ancestry; Issei parents; Japanese Americans; Nisei

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