Kazuo Hinatsu oral history interview, part 3 of 6, February 10, 2005
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Hinatsu discusses the regimental structure of the Headquarters company and communications platoon. While at Camp Shelby, he would begin his work in the cadre, teaching discipline to the new Army recruits. He talks about the Hawaiian soldiers and learning pidgin english, while the weather was hot and humid. He also talks about going into Hattiesburg and seeing the segregated structures. His duty with the wire section, would be to lay wire down for communication channels. After Camp Shelby, he would be shipped overseas, many soldiers getting seasick and gambling along the way.
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0:28:37
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2005OH0530_03_Hinatsu
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http://www.goforbroke.org/oral_histories/mp4/530-Hinatsu-Kazuo-3.m4v
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1920 Apr 10
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Hinatsu, Kazuo: narrator, Nakaishi, Russell: interviewer, and Go For Broke National Education Center: publisher, “Kazuo Hinatsu oral history interview, part 3 of 6, February 10, 2005,” Japanese American Military History Collective, accessed April 25, 2024, https://ndajams.omeka.net/items/show/1051161.