0:00 - Requesting surrender from General Amamiya at a cave
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3:59 - Number of Japanese deaths at Mayahira
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Keywords: American troops; Battle of Okinawa; bombardment; civilians; commanding general; commemoration; cross-fire; dead bodies; General Oshijima; Japanese; Mabuni; mass grave; Mayahira; monuments; Okinawa; prefectures; soldiers; suicide; surrender; trench
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6:19 - Japanese war propaganda/ Grateful Japanese prisoners
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Keywords: Allied Forces; Americans; brain-washed; camps; Chinen-hanto; civilians; classmate; cruelty; evacuate; grateful; hope; information; interrogation; Ishikawa; Japanese Defense Forces; Maha Bay; north; Okinawa; rumor; surrender; Takajiro; thankful; war propaganda
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9:54 - The civilian death toll during war
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Keywords: aerial bombardment; atom bomb; atomic bomb; bombardment; bombing; children; civilians; combat; decomposition; defense; elderly; Germany; human casualties; invasion; island; long-range weapons; naval bombardment; neutralization; Normandy; officers; Okinawa; Sagamiwa; strategic command; suffering; suppression; Tokyo; war; women; Yokohama
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15:12 - Finding a Japanese family hiding in an air raid shelter
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18:36 - Witnessing the death of Japanese soldiers by American GI's
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Keywords: Allied Forces; American soldiers; armed; captives; captured; easy target; escape; GI’s; groups; hide; interpreter; interrogation; Japanese soldiers; kill; killed; linguists; lives; movements; prisoners; questioning; regimental headquarters; rifles; rules of war; save; smoke grenades; sugar cane fields; tear gas; war rules
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23:43 - Reaction to and celebrating the Japanese surrender
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Keywords: 96th Division; alcohol; announcement; army; atom bomb; atomic bomb; August 15; captain; celebration; civilians; discharge; Emperor of Japan; happiness; Hiroshima; invasion of Japan; Japanese; Landing Ship Dock; LSD; Mindoro; Nagasaki; Philippines; population; recovery; replacements; surrender; war
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26:15 - Points system for discharge/ Lengthy and winding way home
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Keywords: 24th corps; 4 months; accumulation; affidavit; announcement; California; Camp Beale; captain; civilians; de-mobilization; December; discharge; February; ferry; formal surrender; Hawaii; home; Japan; Korea; Korean occupation; length of service; Leyte; Los Angeles; lost; mainland; Mindoro; Missouri; Oakland; Phillipines; Pier 39; Pittsburg; points system; reassigned; Sacramento; San Francisco; San Pedro; September 2; service records; ship; shipment; stranded; Tacloban; team; train; troops; wait; Warren; west coast
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32:06 - Visit to Honouliuli in 1944 and funny incident
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Keywords: battalion; building; captured; combat; conversation; curse; equality; Hawaii; Honouliuli Internment Camp; incident; interpreter; Japanese army; Japanese prisoners of War; Korean prisoners; labor force; latrine; Leyte; mess hall; photos; POW; Saipan; Schoffield; September; ship; team; translation; urinate; visit
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37:56 - Discharge/ GI bill and post-military career on Hawaii
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Keywords: 1950; agriculture; applicants; brother; cannery; census; Chief of Mosquito Control Branch; coffee farm; college; college grads; discharge; engineer; entomology; father; federal agency; field hospital; Fort Kam; Fort Kamehameha; GI Bill; graduation; Halaula; Hawaii; high school; home; job market; Kona; Kunia; mainland; medical school; minor; money; mosquito control inspector; physical exam; Pier 39; pre-med; qualified; school; Soil Conservation Service; soil conservationist; summer job; territory; treatment; University of Hawaii; veterans; WWII
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43:46 - Father's coffee farm/ Marriage and family
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Keywords: 1949; 1952; AC Kobayashi; accounting; Amy Young; broke; brother; children; Chio Sasaki; civil engineering; coffee farm; college; contracting; contractor; daughter; DC; defense work; elderly; FAA; family; farming; father; federal agency; graduation; grandchildren; Guam; Hawaii; head of aircraft certification; house; ill; inherit; interest; Kona; KPMG; lease; Marines; marriage; masters; MIT; mother; property; Russell Young; Santa Clara; Seattle; service; son; son-in-law; Stanford; stocks; successful; tomatoes; University of Washington; Waikiki; Washington; wife
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51:02 - Important qualities learned from parents
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