Fumio Ike Ikeda oral history interview, part 3 of 4, November 16, 2002

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Description

Ikeda talks about his Military Intelligence Service (MIS) assignments in China translating captured documents, discusses the differences between interrogation, interpretation, and translation, and talks about kibei involvement in MIS. He then talks about his duty interrogating POWs, discusses the Japanese Army and officers, V-J Day, and his brother’s military service. Lastly, Ikeda talks about the Army’s point system for discharge, traveling back to the United States, and what it was like visiting his parents at Jerome incarceration camp.

Format

video/m4v

Extent

0:27:03

Language

Spatial Coverage

Identifier

2002OH0316_03_Ikeda

Oral History Item Type Metadata

URL

http://www.goforbroke.org/oral_histories/mp4/316-Ikeda-Fumio-3.m4v

Date of Birth

1920 Sep 23

Location of Birth

War or Conflict

Branch of Service

Entrance into Service

Index

Yes

Citation

Ikeda, Fumio Ike: narrator, Yee, Marie: interviewer, and Go For Broke National Education Center: publisher, “Fumio Ike Ikeda oral history interview, part 3 of 4, November 16, 2002,” Japanese American Military History Collective, accessed March 29, 2024, https://ndajams.omeka.net/items/show/1053290.