Joe Saito oral history interview, part 4 of 5, February 12, 2005
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Joe Saito discusses conditions at Camp Shelby and shares experiences. At basic training he describes the relationship between Mainland boys and Hawaiian boys. Saito parts ways with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team when he arrives at Camp Meade and joins the 171st Unit. He describes his duties and first time seeing a casualty. Saito trains replacements for the 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. He applies for Officer Candidate School and get in as a Second Lieutenant Medical Administrative. He is discharge in 1945.
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2005OH0532_04_Saito
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http://www.goforbroke.org/oral_histories/mp4/532-Saito-Joe-4.m4v
Date of Birth
1918 Apr 22
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War or Conflict
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Entrance into Service
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Saito, Joe: narrator, Miyamoto, Phil: interviewer, and Go For Broke National Education Center: publisher, “Joe Saito oral history interview, part 4 of 5, February 12, 2005,” Japanese American Military History Collective, accessed April 23, 2024, https://ndajams.omeka.net/items/show/1051175.