Shojiro Tom Taketa oral history interview, part 4 of 6, June 5, 2005
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Taketa continued to talk about his family's forced removal and Tule Lake. He discusses employment options at Tule Lake. He talks about the loyalty questionnaire and volunteering for military service. Taketa shares his experiences with discrimination. He talks about his military training. He discusses his friendships. He briefly talks about his time in Camp Shelby and Camp Savage. Taketa discusses his shipping orders and his assignment to a tactical Air Force unit. He gives an overview of his unit's rescue missions in Burma.
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video/m4v
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0:29:49
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2005OH0573_04_Taketa
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http://www.goforbroke.org/oral_histories/mp4/573-Taketa-Shojiro-4.m4v
Date of Birth
1921 Aug 06
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War or Conflict
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Entrance into Service
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Citation
Taketa, Shojiro: narrator, Horsting, Robert: interviewer, and Go For Broke National Education Center: publisher, “Shojiro Tom Taketa oral history interview, part 4 of 6, June 5, 2005,” Japanese American Military History Collective, accessed May 2, 2024, https://ndajams.omeka.net/items/show/1051444.