Toshiro Hiraide oral history interview, part 2 of 5, February 23, 2003

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Hiraide discusses arriving at the Manzanar Concentration Camp and describes camp conditions. Soon after arriving, he was assigned a job in the welfare office and soon befriended a woman who assisted him with a job working at the War Relocation Authority in Washington D.C. Leaving Manzanar, he was eventually drafted into the army where he served as a Japanese teacher for the officers. The video concludes with Hiraide thoughts about the end of the war as well as his family's experience after the closing of Manzanar.

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2003OH0331_02_Hiraide

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“Toshiro Hiraide oral history interview, part 2 of 5, February 23, 2003,” Japanese American Military History Collective, accessed April 29, 2024, https://ndajams.omeka.net/items/show/620.