0:00 - Landing overseas in Italy and entering battle shortly after/Fighting with the experienced 100th Battalion

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Keywords: 100th Infantry Battalion (Separate); 442nd Regimental Combat Team; battle; Civitavecchia; gliders; Italy; Naples; overseas; Rome; troop ship

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2:43 - His first action in Italy

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Keywords: 100th Infantry Battalion (Separate); 442nd Regimental Combat Team; action; Arno; counter-attack; Florence; Italy; Pisa; support

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4:42 - Training to be airdropped by gliders/Flying in the glider and landing

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Keywords: Antitank Company; British gliders; C47; electrical wire; France; gliders; gun; jeep; medic; nylon rope; road bank; telephone poles; trailer; training

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12:02 - After landing from the glider/Fighting with the 517th and the 442nd in Italy and France

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Keywords: 442nd Regimental Combat Team; 517th Airborne Regimental Combat Team; Bruyeres-Biffontaine; gliders; Italy

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14:52 - Traveling along the battle lines in Europe/His duties as a jeep driver

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Keywords: Buddahead; drivers; Haole; jeeps; officers; platoon; travel; truck

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18:55 - Pepe the platoon mascot dog

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Keywords: butch; dog; mascot; pepe; platoon

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20:16 - Recalling seeing his Platoon Sergeant/Being trained as a litter bearer

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Keywords: battle; litter bearer; medic; platoon; Sergeant; stretcher; wounded

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23:53 - Poor weather at Bruyers-Biffontaine in France/Trench foot/Memories of battles at Bruyers-Biffontaine

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Keywords: 442nd Regimental Combat Team; amputated; Bruyeres-Biffontaine; bullets; cold; hospital; Nisei soldiers; rain; shells; snow; sounds; trench foot; water

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26:38 - Hearing the German eighty-eight artillery guns/The Vosges Forest

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Keywords: artillery; artillery fire; eighty-eight; German soldiers; mobile; Redwood; shrapnel; thick; tractors; Vosges

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