Kenneth Muroshige oral history interview, part 2 of 3, October 21, 2005
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Muroshige recounts his parents' encouragement of his service in the U.S. military despite their own allegiance to Japan. He describes the use of various nicknames and racialized terms for Japanese Americans such as "Buddhahead" and "Kotonk". He relates his combat experience under German shellfire and describes the death of a fellow soldier and sustaining his own injury. Other topics include married life, lack of confidence in the U.S. military's preparedness for war, and friendly relations with a German-Swedish family in Wisconsin while on sick leave.
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0:28:59
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2005OH0621_02_Muroshige
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http://www.goforbroke.org/oral_histories/mp4/621-Muroshige-Kenneth-2.m4v
Date of Birth
1914 Nov 11
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War or Conflict
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Yes
Citation
Muroshige, Kenneth: narrator, Tahara-Kim, Lynette: interviewer, and Go For Broke National Education Center: publisher, “Kenneth Muroshige oral history interview, part 2 of 3, October 21, 2005,” Japanese American Military History Collective, accessed April 25, 2024, https://ndajams.omeka.net/items/show/1051714.