Takeshi "Tak" Ota oral history interview, part 2 of 4, August 29, 2003
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Ota discusses his family’s work on Driscoll Farms, life after Executive Order 9066, and his family’s forced removal to Salinas temporary detention facility. He then talks about life at Poston incarceration camp, discusses getting drafted and going to Camp Blanding for basic training, and then going to Fort Snelling for Military Intelligence Service (MIS). Ota also talks about the relationship between Hawaiian soldiers and mainland Nisei soldiers, and discusses studying, shipping out to Manila and stopping first in Hawaii, and his feelings regarding the end of the war.
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0:29:13
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2003OH0373_02_Ota
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http://www.goforbroke.org/oral_histories/mp4/373-Ota-Takeshi-2.m4v
Date of Birth
1923 Dec 04
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War or Conflict
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Yes
Citation
Ota, Takeshi: narrator, Horsting, Robert: interviewer, and Go For Broke National Education Center: publisher, “Takeshi "Tak" Ota oral history interview, part 2 of 4, August 29, 2003,” Japanese American Military History Collective, accessed December 21, 2024, https://ndajams.omeka.net/items/show/1049771.