Toshio Tokunaga oral history interview, part 1 of 3, November 17, 2007
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Tokunaga begins the interview talking about his family background and his parents coming over from Japan and settling eventually in Washington. Growing up in Washington, he would enjoy playing sports with other kids, attend regular and Japanese language schools and fish for trout. Next, he talks about being in the middle of a movie when hearing about the Pearl Harbor attacks. Following the Executive Order 9066 evacuation, he and his family would be forced to Puyallup Temporary Detention Center until being moved to Minidoka concentration camp in Idaho.
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video/m4v
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0:56:44
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2007OH0834_01_Tokunaga
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http://www.goforbroke.org/oral_histories/mp4/834-Tokunaga-Tosh-1.m4v
Date of Birth
1925 Jan 02
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War or Conflict
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Yes
Citation
Tokunaga, Toshio: narrator, Horsting, Robert: interviewer, and Go For Broke National Education Center: publisher, “Toshio Tokunaga oral history interview, part 1 of 3, November 17, 2007,” Japanese American Military History Collective, accessed April 26, 2024, https://ndajams.omeka.net/items/show/1053587.