Minoru Tsuchimochi oral history interview, part 2 of 5, June 27, 2005
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Tsuchimochi discusses the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor including talking about curfew, having to leave belongings behind during forced removal, and discussing Japanese American community leaders getting picked up by the FBI. He then talks about traveling to Pinedale temporary detention facility and discusses the living conditions there and at Tule Lake Concentration Camp. Next, Tsuchimochi talks about a typical day at Pinedale, talks about the food in camp, and discusses leaving Tule Lake to go to Gary, Indiana for work. Lastly, Tsuchimochi talks about meeting his first wife at Tule Lake, getting divorced, what life was like in Gary, and talks about his job farming sugar beets in Montana.
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video/m4v
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0:27:53
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2005OH0581_02_Tsuchimochi
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http://www.goforbroke.org/oral_histories/mp4/581-Tsuchimochi-Minoru-2.m4v
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1920 Sep 30
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War or Conflict
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Tsuchimochi, Minoru: narrator, Nakaishi, Russell: interviewer, and Go For Broke National Education Center: publisher, “Minoru Tsuchimochi oral history interview, part 2 of 5, June 27, 2005,” Japanese American Military History Collective, accessed December 22, 2024, https://ndajams.omeka.net/items/show/1051492.