Clark Yonemoto oral history interview, part 1 of 4, January 22, 2006

0:00 - Introduction; family background

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Keywords: Hawaii; Hiroshima; Issei parents; siblings

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3:13 - Discusses childhood; education and homelife

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Keywords: childhood activities; Japanese language school; plantation; primary school

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7:18 - Discusses his early adulthood; jobs in Hawaii

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Keywords: hotel; photograph technician; plantation

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10:05 - Discusses his recollections of the Pearl Harbor attack

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Keywords: bomb shelter; Hawaii; shortwave radio

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12:27 - Discusses his experience being drafted September 1944

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Keywords: basic training; Honolulu; Schofield Barracks

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15:58 - Discusses his military service

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Keywords: C ration; Japanese children; Japanese language school; Japanese refugees; K ration; Mariana Islands

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21:56 - Discusses his travel from Guam to Saipan

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Partial Transcript: 23:04-23:37 silence (?)

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Keywords: Air Force; airplane; Navy

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24:46 - Discusses working on Tinian Island

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Subjects: interpreter Mariana Islands Navy