0:00 - Occupation post-high school

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Keywords: California; farm; Frank Wiggins Trade School; garage; graduation; Japanese; job; Los Angeles; mechanic; moved; occupation; parents; Pontiac; repair shop; Torrance; trade school

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3:16 - Reaction to the bombing of Pearl Harbor/ Joining the military

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Keywords: auto shop; bomb; brother; California; closed store; draft; draft number; enemy aliens; family; father; January 1942; Japanese Americans; landlord; local board; military; mother; Nisei; parent’s reaction; service; sister; Torrance

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6:50 - Family's move to Utah/ Reaction to evacuation orders

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Keywords: Arkansas; California; Camp Roberts; Camp Robinson; communication; concentration camps; draft; evacuation orders; family; farm; father; Fort McArthur; Japanese; Japanese American; letter; military; newspaper; no trial; parents; post; relocation camps; Salt Lake City; second class citizens; train; Utah

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11:01 - Basic training at Camp Robinson/ Ordinance shop at Fort Leavenworth

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Keywords: army maintenance school; auto shop; bartender; bartending; bunk; Camp Robinson; Camp Robinson basic training; Caucasion; Chicago; civilians; dance; evacuation; hike; hospital; Infantry; Japanese American soldiers; Kansas; mainlanders; Nisei; officer's orderly; officer’s club; officers; Omaha; Shelby; snow; Special Training Battery; tents; training officers; treatment of Nisei soldiers; truck repair; truck shop; weather

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15:15 - Volunteering for and training with the 232nd Combat Engineer Company/ Visiting family in Utah

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Keywords: 232nd combat engineer; Artillery; auto repair; auto shop; basic training; brother; Camp Shelby; Captain Nakata; engineer training; equipment; family; farm; father; Fort Leavenworth; furlough; Hawaii; hikes; humidity; Infantry; Japanese American unit; Kansas; lieutenant; mechanics; military; Mississippi; mother; motor pool sergeant; ordinance board; peach picking; prior training; repair shop; roll crop farming; service; soldier; sugar beet; Tonaki; Toyama; train ride; transfer; Utah; weather

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21:27 - Other engineer training/ Hawaiians in the 232nd

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Keywords: bulldozer; Camp Robinson; combat engineer unit; English; Hawaiian Pidgin; Japanese American soldiers; mainlanders; motor pool; pontoon bridges; rifle range; rifles; Springfield 03's; strict; translation; trucks; volunteer; World War I; WWI

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