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Keywords: Big Island; Brazil; cemetery; descendants; emperor; father; foreigners; grandfather; Hiroshima; Hokkaido; horseback; illness; immigration; isolation; Japan; labor; marriage; Meiji era; mother,Hawaii; occupation; opportunities; Pahala Sugar Company; passport; plantation; Russia; Sapporo; Siberia; sick; soy sauce; tongue; village; whip; wife; WWI

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Keywords: abandoned; Asian Exclusion Act; Big Island; brother; childhood; Chinese Exclusion Act; classmate; family; father; Hawaii; hooky; Japanese; Japanese language school; Kanji; mother; Nisei; Pahala Sugar Plantation; pranks; private school; public school; rascal; siblings; sister; teacher; textbooks; wife

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Keywords: bags; boxcar; education; elementary school; food; graduation; Hawaii; High School; Hilo High School; intermediate school; job; lumber; manufacture; middle school; ninth grade; occupation; plantation warehouse; primary school; railroad platform; sugar plantation; supplies

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Keywords: cane; concrete; conveyor belt; crystals; experience; granules; magnifying glass; man power; molasses; rain; raw sugar; sample; skill; slide; sugar processing; unrefined sugar; war; water content

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Keywords: application; child labor; children; Chinese; distribute workers; driver; fields; Filipino; food; gear shift; harvest; high school; Hilo; inventory manager; isolation; Japanese; job; lumber; manager; mill; order; Pahala Sugar Plantation; parents; plantation; plantation store; racial integration camp; rain; segregated camps; skills; sugar cane; supplies; train; truck; trucks; warehouse; welfare; wife; workplace death; WWII

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Keywords: 1944; agriculture; attack; bamboo leaves; bamboo plant; basic training; bayonet; bombing; combat training; cooking pot; dangerous; December 7; draft; draft board; edible; exempt; fire; friction; Guadalcanal; Halemano Military Reservation; Hilo draft board; infantry; jungle training; Pacific; Pearl Harbor; plantation warehouse; poisonous; quota; shoots; smoke screen; stream; survival training; Washington; water; wire net; WWII

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Keywords: amputation; anti-aircraft; artificial leg; belt; blood loss; conscious; draft; explosion; field stretcher; German; Halemano; interview; Japanese language; knee; mainland; Nisei; parachute; paratrooper; Portuguese; Schoffield Barracks; signs of life; tourniquet

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Keywords: beheaded; blackout; bonfire; Camp Savage; Caucasian; collide; convoy; deployment; duffel bag; English; Filipino; folk dancing; GI’s; hiragana; interview; Japanese; Japanese soldiers; Japanese language; Japanese reader; kana; Kanji; Leyte; lunch; Military Intelligence Service; MIS; mis-identified; moon; Nisei; Okinawan; overseas; pass; Pearl Harbor; Phillipines; pier; plantation; reading; sailing; secret; ship; speech; submarines; tents; test; torpedo; university; village; zig-zag

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Keywords: barracks; bunk; canvas; electricity; hot water; inspection; language school; mashed potatoes; mess kit; Okinawa; pass; Philippines; rifles; ship; shower; tent; troops

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Keywords: 16-inch guns; April 1, 1945; battle shock; battleship; casualties; cigarette; classified movements; coxswain; crew; deck; doctors; explosion; human casualties; impact; invasion; landing; landing ship dock; LSD; mother ship; Phillipines; Red cross flag; shell; steering wheel; tow; trauma; troop ship; zig-zag

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Keywords: air force; atom bomb; aviation gas; baptism by fire; civilian; combat; evacuate; field stretcher; fire; funeral; Japan; Japan surrender; kamikaze pilot; kamikaze plane; listing; murder; Okinawa; orders; reflection; sacrifice; sirens; war

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Keywords: African-Americans; air field; ammo; arms; Awase; battle; Battle of Okinawa; beach; black soldiers; boat; civilian villages; combat zone; commissioned officers; danger; East coast; forest; gang rape; island; isolation; landing; landing ship dock; LSD; major; morning; mother ship; Naha; native Okinawans; Okinawa; pistol; rifle; rope ladder; segregated black regiment; shore; tanks; unconscious; water landing; wreckage

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Keywords: advanced case; bombing; British; bunker; casualties; combat area; criminals; evacuate civilians; feet; gun placement; hospital; illness; invasion; jail; Japanese soldier; jungle; landing; lepers; leprosy; Leyte; mentally ill; nerves; non-combat area; ocean; Okinawa; Pacific Ocean; pain; Phillipines; pocket knife; reinforcements; shooting

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Keywords: American soldiers; baby; basic training; bombing; bullet wound; civilian evactuation; class; comfort women; commissioned officers; doctor; doctors; draft; enlisted soldiers; evacuate; faculty; fluent; food; front lines; gangrene; GI’s; graduated; Haole; Hokkaido; injured; injury; interpreters; Japanese army; Korean; language school; maggots; medical; medical team; Nisei; nursing mother; Occupied Japan; Okinawa; process; prostitutes; racial bias; rape; students; survivors

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Keywords: bombing; civilians; conversation; criminals; diguise; divisions; duty; evacuees; infantry; interpreters; jail; Japanese; Japanese soldiers; jungles; language; leprosy; Marine division; military government; nursing mother; Okinawa; process; rations; regroup; rumors; steal; stragglers; villagers; well; written documents

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Keywords: “seeing is believing”; black crow; death; ducks; dusk; emotion; engineer outfit; fear; friends; grave; interpreter; Kawase air field; machine gun fire; machine guns; MIS; ocean; Okinawa; omens; premonition; rumors; unexpected; villages; war casualties

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Keywords: battleships; bombard; Buckner Bay; damage; dive-bomb; fleet; Guadalcanal; invasion; islands; kamikaze; miss; momentum; Okinawa; Pearl Harbor; Philippines; planes; pre-dawn; pre-dusk; ships; suicide bombers; targets; troop transports

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Keywords: air raids; Americans; caves; civilians; explosion; explosives; fear; fighting; foreigners; grey matter; gun fire; hand grenade; Japanese; mass suicide; Okinawa; post-traumatic stress; prisoners; propaganda; rape; ravine; straggler; suffocation; suicide; torture; tortured; tree

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Keywords: bombing; bury; casualties; civilians; coffee; criminals; death; decay; deserters; dialect; discrimination; disguise; duty; experience; Japanese; Japanese government; mentally ill; Okinawa; prisoner; processing; rations; reflection; smell; soldiers; villagers; war

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Keywords: barbed wire; candy; cereal; civilian population; eggs; farine; fighting; food; Haole; invade; invasion; maggots; manual labor; Occupation; Occupied Japan; peanuts; ration dump; responsibility; rice; roasted; starch; steal; war; worms

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Keywords: combat; court marshall; distribution; district; district mayor; duty; Guadalcanal; Haole; identification; jail; landing; landing ship dock; LSD; marines; mistaken identity; Okinawa; point system; population; rice; sake; steal; villagers

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Keywords: 1947; active duty; active duty training; books; bs; Camp Bailey; Camp Savage; demobilization; detachments; discharge; Fort Schafter; GI Bill; graduates; Hawaii; Hawaiian Pineapple; inactive reserves; interrogation; Japan; language school; letter; linguist; Maizuro; MIS; Nisei; Northern California; Occupation; Okinawa; points; port; post-war; recruiters station; recruitment; repatriation; retire; rotate; Sapporo; school; ship; subsidy; tuition; typing

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Keywords: 1950; address; aim; CIC; civilians; combat intelligence; communist; debrief; detachment; division level; headquarters; indoctrination; information; interrogate; interrogation; Japan; Japanese; Korea; Korean War; Maizuro; Manchuria; march; military information; POW; POW’s; prisoners of war; rank; recommendation; repatriots; revenge; rotation; Russians; screening; stockade; strategic intelligence; supply lines; treatment; Yokohama

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Keywords: army officers; bilingual; English; farmers; fermentation; homemade; interrogate; Japanese; Japanese occupation; kimchee; kimchi; Korea; Korean; language; mess hall; POW’s; prisoners of war; rice; South Korean officers; spicy; translator; underground; war

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Keywords: captain; criminal record; enlisted; fiancée; fundamental; GI’s; Haole; Japan; Japanese citizen; Japanese police department; Kobe; Korea; marriage; mature; permission; sergeant; vacation; visa; war; wedding; wife

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Keywords: army; army service; bonus; bronze medal; core level; corps; division; field; Fort Meade; infantry man; interrogate; Korea; Maryland; military; North Korea; POW’s; re-enlisted; retire; Schoffield; Seoul

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