Haruo Hanamura oral history interview, part 5 of 6, August 20, 2004
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Hanamura talks about church services while overseas, interactions with German POWs; and discusses the Gothic Line battle including his experiences getting shot and taken to the aid station, and his leg amputation as a result of that wound. He then talks about going to the hospital; returning to the United States aboard a hospital ship; receiving a Purple Heart and Bronze Star; and the decorations his company received. Lastly, Hanamura talks about seeing his parents again post-war; discusses his worst and best memories during wartime; provides a message to his grandsons regarding his wartime experiences; and discusses his job at Livermore Laboratory.
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2004 August 20
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0:30:32
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2004OH0482_05_Hanamura
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http://www.goforbroke.org/oral_histories/mp4/482-Hanamura-Haruo-5.m4v
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1919 Apr 10
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War or Conflict
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Yes
Citation
Hanamura, Haruo: narrator, Hanamura, Wendy: interviewer, and Go For Broke National Education Center: publisher, “Haruo Hanamura oral history interview, part 5 of 6, August 20, 2004,” Japanese American Military History Collective, accessed April 24, 2024, https://ndajams.omeka.net/items/show/1050724.