Masao Takahashi oral history interview, part 1 of 3, November 10, 2001

Mas Takahashi was the youngest of five children. He grew up in San Francisco, and later, Stockton, California, where he attended high school. After the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, he and his family were forcibly removed to the Manzanar Concentration Camp. He was drafted into the United States Army from Detroit, Michigan. He received basic training at Camp Blanding in Florida. Before being shipped out from basic, he visited his father in Manzanar. He was then shipped overseas to France, where he joined the 100th Infantry Battalion during the Champagne Campaign.

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