Theodore Wakai oral history interview, part 2 of 6, July 6, 2005

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Ted Wakai begins with boarding school activities and discusses the Pearl Harbor attack. He then talks about his job cleaning Hickam Field after the attack and the reactions from the community and Caucasian soldiers to the attack. This interview segment ends with talks about local internment, his own family's internment on the mainland, and the recruitment push for the Military Intelligence Service.

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0:28:36

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2005OH0592_02_Wakai

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http://www.goforbroke.org/oral_histories/mp4/592-Wakai-Ted-2.m4v

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1924 Oct 27

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Wakai, Theodore: narrator, Iketani, Todd: interviewer, and Go For Broke National Education Center: publisher, “Theodore Wakai oral history interview, part 2 of 6, July 6, 2005,” Japanese American Military History Collective, accessed November 21, 2024, https://ndajams.omeka.net/items/show/1056114.