Don Seki oral history interview, part 4 of 6, May 8, 1999

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Don Seki talks about his experience fighting on the front lines in Italy. He describes his first experience in battle at Arno River, where his Lieutenant was killed in action during a night raid. He talks about when he was injured in battle by a German machine gun, and was awarded a Purple Heart. A friend of his was killed in action in a mine field, so he and some others went to visit his mother in Hawaii. He describes what a tree burst and a "Bouncing Betsy" are.

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Video/m4v

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00:28:41

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1999OH0048_04_Seki

Citation

Seki, Don: narrator, Yamazaki, David: interviewer, and Go For Broke National Education Center: publisher, “Don Seki oral history interview, part 4 of 6, May 8, 1999,” Japanese American Military History Collective, accessed December 22, 2024, https://ndajams.omeka.net/items/show/337.