Mike Yoshio Kubota oral history interview, part 5 of 6, January 26, 2003

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Description

Kubota discusses Major Stanley Uno and reuniting with his Brother. During the war, Kubota encounters a Chinese girl and shares his interactions of helping her. In 1946 Kubota is discharge and returns back to Hawaii. His family later finds out that he serves with the Military Intelligence Service and not the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. He describes his Father's feeling about the conflict of interest. Post-war, Kubota goes to college in Colorado and finds work as a microbiologist. Later he returns home to Hawaii and enters a graduate program to get his Masters. He recalls meeting his wife and receiving letters 50 years after the war.

Format

video/m4v

Extent

0:25:41

Language

Spatial Coverage

Identifier

2003OH0325_05_Kubota

Oral History Item Type Metadata

URL

http://www.goforbroke.org/oral_histories/mp4/325-Kubota-Mike-5.m4v

Date of Birth

1923 Aug 30

Location of Birth

War or Conflict

Branch of Service

Entrance into Service

Index

Yes

Citation

Kubota, Mike Yoshio: narrator, Yee, Marie: interviewer, and Go For Broke National Education Center: publisher, “Mike Yoshio Kubota oral history interview, part 5 of 6, January 26, 2003,” Japanese American Military History Collective, accessed March 28, 2024, https://ndajams.omeka.net/items/show/1053332.