Irving Akahoshi oral history interview, part 1 of 6, November 18, 2000

Keywords: anti-aircraft shell; battleships; Caucasian; December 7th; discrimination; duty; enemy planes; Hickam Field; pass; Pearl Harbor; planes; radio broadcast; Schofield Barracks; trigger happy

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10:58 - Assigned to guard the beach near Pearl Harbor / Returned to Schofield Barracks -- Nisei recruit's firearms were taken away

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Keywords: Americans of Japanese Ancestry; bayonet; beach; defensive positions; disarmed; Hawaiian Provisional Battalion; machine guns; pro-Japan; recruits; Schofield Barracks; segregated; tent; training; trenches; wartime

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14:32 - Creation of the Hawaiian Provisional Battalion --Rounded up and put on a ship

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Keywords: Americans of Japanese Ancestry; Boomtown; company; family; gangplank; Hawaiian Provisional Battalion; racial segregation; Schofield Barracks; segregated; sugar cane; training

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20:36 - Journey to San Francisco -- Gambled on board the ship / Put on a train to Camp McCoy

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Keywords: barbed wire fence; Camp McCoy; gambling; Honolulu; imprisonment; Japanese submarines; living conditions; Mississippi; prison camp; PX; Red Cross; San Francisco; seasick; St. Louis; tents; train; Wisconsin

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