0:00 - Discussing father's reasons for going to Japan

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Keywords: correspondence; Manchuria; money; mother; pool hall; war; whiskey

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2:33 - Childhood trip to Japan; and post-high school employment

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Keywords: 442nd; foreman; mine; mother; Nisei; Pearl Harbor; school

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5:25 - Employment II; and life after Executive Order 9066

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Keywords: baseball; business college; cards; friends; mine; Pearl Harbor; war

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8:05 - Discussing curfew and declaration of war

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Keywords: drive; Franklin Delano Roosevelt; mother; radio; Salt Lake City

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9:59 - Discussing boarding house residents; and Japanese American incarceration

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Keywords: mother; restaurant; Sacramento; Tanforan; Topaz; Tule Lake; Utah; wife

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11:41 - Attending business school; and interactions with "zoot suiters"

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Keywords: bookkeeping; fight; Japanese; Los Angeles; Nisei; typing

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14:34 - Getting drafted

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Keywords: 100th; Fort Douglas; friends; Salt Lake City; service; Topaz

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16:59 - Discussing Fort Douglas; and Hawaiian soldiers

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Keywords: 100th; basic training; business college; Mainland soldiers; Ogden; veterans

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19:32 - Basic training at Camp Shelby

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Keywords: 171st Infantry Battalion; Antitank Company; bivouac; Company A; marching; rifle; woods

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22:07 - Discussing anti-tank training

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Keywords: compass; gun; latrine; Lieutenant; walk

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24:27 - Joining the 100th; and stories about the 100th

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Keywords: basic training; Bruyeres; Champagne Campaign; German soldiers; Lost Battalion; shells

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