0:00 - Landing in Italy -- Met up with the 100th Infantry Battalion

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Keywords: 100th Infantry Battalion; Anzio; Anzio Beach; Europe; European Theater; Italy; Japanese American soldiers; Landing Craft Infantry (LCI); Naples; Nisei soldiers; replacements; Rome

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2:14 - 100th Infantry Battalion pulled from front lines upon entering Rome

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Keywords: 100th Infantry Battalion; 442nd Regimental Combat Team; Anzio; concentration camps; Hawaii; Hawaiian Nisei; Italy; Mainland; Mainland Nisei; newspaper; Nisei; Nisei soldiers; racial discrimination; Rome; second generation; United States Army

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6:38 - First experience in combat -- Advance into Leghorn, Italy / Pisa, Italy -- Italian family hid him from German soldiers

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Keywords: 100th Infantry Battalion; Americans of Japanese ancestry; Chinese; Civitavecchia; combat; English language; German soldiers; Hitler; Italian language; Italians; Italy; Japanese Americans; Leghorn; Pisa; Rome

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11:46 - Made friends with an Italian family in Arno, Italy

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Keywords: American uniform; Arno; Arno River; dog tags; granite; hill; Italians; Italy; Japanese American soldiers; letters; Salt Lake City; village

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15:28 - Ceasefire with the German soldiers in Monte Carlo, France

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Keywords: Alps; Appalachian Mountains; Belvedere; Bruyeres; ceasefire; defensive position; France; German 88mm; German soldiers; Lost Battalion; Monte Carlo; patrol; Rescue of the Lost Battalion; truce

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19:39 - Champagne Campaign -- Exchanging misfire with Germans / Shelled by German 88mm

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Keywords: 442nd Regimental Combat Team; artillery fire; Champagne Campaign; defensive position; France; front lines; German 88mm; German soldiers; Jeep; Lost Battalion; MP; Nice; replacements

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23:58 - Preparing the replacement recruits for the front lines

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Keywords: 100th Infantry Battalion; 442nd Regimental Combat Team; Anzio; Anzio Beach; artillery fire; Battalion Runner; comradery; danger zones; front lines; German soldiers; patrol; recruits; replacements; war experience

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