Thomas Sakamoto oral history interview, part 4 of 6, June 3, 2001
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Thomas Sakamoto talks about his experience as a Military Intelligence Service linguist. His responsibilities were to translate captured Japanese documents and interrogated Japanese prisoners of war. He explains the conditions of jungle warfare in the Pacific Theater. He talks about how he met his wife, who was also a Japanese linguist. He goes on to talk about the end of the war, where he was sent to the Occupation of Japan as part of the War Correspondence.
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video/m4v
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00:27:35
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2001OH0184_04_Sakamoto
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Sakamoto, Thomas: narrator, Hawkins, Richard: interviewer, and Go For Broke National Education Center: publisher, “Thomas Sakamoto oral history interview, part 4 of 6, June 3, 2001,” Japanese American Military History Collective, accessed November 21, 2024, https://ndajams.omeka.net/items/show/677.