Tsuneo Takemoto oral history interview, part 4 of 6, November 30, 1998
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In this segment, Takemoto recounts his training at Camp Shelby before being deployed for action in Italy. He explains that the soldiers were trained to know their rifles intimately, but were issued new weapons at Newport News without time to practice with them. He then describes his experience in battle, seeing dead American and German soldiers, and the equipment, terrain and contacts with the local Italians.
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video/m4v
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0:24:05
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1998OH0033_04_Takemoto
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http://www.goforbroke.org/oral_histories/mp4/033-Takemoto-Tsuneo-4.m4v
Date of Birth
1923 Jun 26
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War or Conflict
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Campaigns/Battles
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Yes
Citation
Takemoto, Tsuneo: narrator, Nakaishi, Russell: interviewer, and Go For Broke National Education Center: publisher, “Tsuneo Takemoto oral history interview, part 4 of 6, November 30, 1998,” Japanese American Military History Collective, accessed April 27, 2024, https://ndajams.omeka.net/items/show/1049959.