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Title
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Wallace Kagawa oral history interview June 9, 1999
Oral History
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URL
http://www.goforbroke.org/oral_histories/mp4/063-Kagawa-Wallace-2.m4v
Date of Birth
[YYYY-MM-DD]
1917 Jul 31
Location of Birth
Honolulu, Hawaii
War or Conflict
World War, 1939-1945
Branch of Service
Army
Entrance into Service
Drafted or Volunteered
Drafted
Nickname
Wally
Location of Basic Training
Camp Shelby, Mississippi
March Air Force Base
Unit of Service
442nd Regimental Combat Team
Campaigns/Battles
Naples-Foggia Campaign
Southern France Campaign
Champagne Campaign
The Gothic Line
Bruyeres, Belmont, Biffontaine
Rescue of the Lost Battalion
Index
indicates an oral history item with an XML file indexed in OHMS.
Yes
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Title
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Wallace Kagawa oral history interview, part 2 of 5, June 9, 1999
Creator
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Kagawa, Wallace: narrator
Furuya, Kenny: interviewer
Go For Broke National Education Center: publisher
Source
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Go For Broke National Education Center
Identifier
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1999OH0063_02_Kagawa
Description
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Kagawa talks about his experiences traveling to Camp Shelby, discusses getting assigned to an Anti-Tank Company, and talks about traveling overseas to Naples, Italy. He then talks about his experiences in Italy including discussing Italian civilians, sightseeing in Civitavecchia, and his Anti-Tank Company duties digging and planting mines. Next, Kagawa talks about witnessing his first casualty of war; and getting assigned to the 517th Parachute Regimental Combat Team and training with gliders. Lastly, Kagawa provides some thoughts regarding flying with the gliders; talks about landing in Southern France on a glider which resulted in the death of the pilot and co-pilot; and discusses his relationship with some paratroopers while in combat.
Subject
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World War II--Military service--442nd Regimental Combat Team
World War II--Military service--Basic training--Camp Shelby
World War II--France
Type
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Oral Histories
Format
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video/m4v
Extent
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0:27:58
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Date
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1999 June 09
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Las Vegas, California
Anti-Tank Company
Camp Shelby
gliders
Italy
Killed in Action
overseas
paratrooper
train