0:00 - Further elaboration on witnessing the Pearl Harbor attack

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Keywords: bombers; bombs; fighters; Hinomaru; Pearl Harbor; planes

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3:34 - Thoughts on seeing the Hinomaru on the planes and on family still in Japan

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Keywords: brothers; draft; family; Hinomaru; Japan; Okinawa

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6:10 - Hawaii post Pearl Harbor

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Keywords: 442nd Regimental Combat Team; draft; high school; Nisei

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8:36 - Nisei enlistment and family in Okinawa during American Invasion of Okinawa

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Keywords: Battle of Okinawa; Camp Snelling; family; Nisei; Okinawan; sister

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13:21 - Early war thoughts and wanting to join the 442nd

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Keywords: 100th Infantry Battalion (Separate); 442nd Regimental Combat Team; cousins; friends; news; volunteers; war

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16:08 - Reading about the heavy casualties among the 442nd

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Keywords: 442nd Regimental Combat Team; casualties; Lost Battalion

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16:56 - Knowledge about internment camps on the mainland

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Keywords: emotions; Hawaii; internment camps; mainland; Mississippi

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17:43 - Receiving draft letter and basic training

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Keywords: draft; Fort McClellan; Hakujin; Military Intelligence Service; MIS; physical

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20:15 - Basic training / Experiences of discrimination on the mainland

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Keywords: Anniston, Alabama; basic training; Fort McClellan; race discrimination; racism; segregation

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24:15 - Basic training / Nisei group protection

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Keywords: barracks; fighting; Hakujin; Nisei; protection; signal

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25:58 - Basic training / Meeting mainland Nisei and English skills

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Keywords: English; Hawaiian Pidgin English; Mainland; Nisei; Pidgin

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27:17 - Basic training / Physical conditioning and weapons

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Keywords: guns; M1 Garand; M1918 Browning Assault Rifle (BAR); machine guns; muscle building; weapons; weight gain

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