Wallace Nagao oral history interview, part 1 of 2, June 7, 2006

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Description

Wallace Nagao talks about his family's history and his early life growing up on one of Hawaii's sugar plantations. Nagao goes through his educational history-- from elementary school through college and his experiences at Japanese language school. He also shares his recollections of the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, serving in the Hawaii Territorial Guard, the Varsity Victory Volunteers, and in the Military Intelligence Service. Finally, Nagao recounts his training experiences, being assigned to the Burma Campaign, and interrogating POW's.

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video/m4v

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01:33:15

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Spatial Coverage

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MISH_Nagao-1

Citation

Nagao, Wallace: narrator, Tsukiyama, Ted: interviewer, and Military Intelligence Service Veterans Club of Hawaii: publisher, “Wallace Nagao oral history interview, part 1 of 2, June 7, 2006,” Japanese American Military History Collective, accessed April 26, 2024, https://ndajams.omeka.net/items/show/1053607.