0:00 - Discussing first battlefield experience

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Keywords: communications; enemy fire; naive; non-combatants; switchboard operator

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2:49 - Describes job duties; switchboard operator

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Keywords: Commander; communication; headquarters; laying wire; telephone

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4:20 - Discussing returning to U.S. after Cassino

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Keywords: Achilles heel; injury; Italy; liability; medical problem; weakness

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8:18 - Discussing battles he saw

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Keywords: Cassino; communications; enemy fire; jeep; laying wire; non-combatants; shells

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10:34 - Discussing racial slur said by a commanding officer

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Keywords: anger; discrimination in the military; expendable; Hawaiian soldiers; Japanese Americans; resentment

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12:41 - Discussing a friend Killed in Action

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Keywords: casualty; Japanese American soldiers; KIA; medal; monument; sacrifice

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14:37 - Discussing experience before returning to Hawaii

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Keywords: California; Fort Ord; Haole; racism

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17:48 - Discussing leaving friends in Italy

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Keywords: Cassino; enemy fire; friendship; Hawaiian soldiers; Nisei soldiers; non-combatants

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19:44 - Discussing being a non-combatant soldier

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Keywords: baseball; communications; Hawaiian soldiers; headquarters; sports

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22:34 - Discussing the journey from Europe to Hawaii

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Keywords: maintenance; military service; recreation center; Schofield Barracks

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24:12 - Discussing finishing his army time in Hawaii

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Keywords: bowling alley; Hawaiian soldiers; Lost Battalion; recreation center

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