Yukio Kawamoto oral history interview, part 3 of 7, October 11, 2003

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Description

Yukio Kawamoto describes his basic training experience at Camp Robinson and Camp Crowder. He was later recruited into the Military Intelligence Service Language School at Camp Savage, Minnesota. He talks about his experience visiting his parents at the Topaz Concentration Camp before shipping overseas. He was shipped to the South Pacific, landing first in New Caledonia, then in Bougainville, which was his first experience in combat.

Format

video/m4v

Extent

00:29:05

Language

eng

Date

2003-10-11

Spatial Coverage

Washington, D.C.

Identifier

2003OH0393_03_Kawamoto

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Index

Yes

Citation

Kawamoto, Yukio: narrator, Hawkins, Richard: interviewer, and Go For Broke National Education Center: publisher, “Yukio Kawamoto oral history interview, part 3 of 7, October 11, 2003,” Japanese American Military History Collective, accessed May 2, 2024, https://ndajams.omeka.net/items/show/1049523.