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vh Isao Kameshige Interview (ddr-one-7-35)

Nisei male. Born in Galt, California. Grew up in Hollister, California. During World War II, removed to the Salinas Assembly Center, California, and the Poston concentration camp, Arizona. Drafted into the military and served with the Counterintelligence Corps in Japan during the U.S. occupation. After service, joined family in Ontario, Oregon.

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vh Isao Kameshige Interview Segment 1 (ddr-one-7-35-1)

Memories of camp

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vh Isao Kameshige Interview Segment 2 (ddr-one-7-35-2)

Serving with the Military Intelligence Service

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vh Isao Kameshige Interview Segment 5 (ddr-one-7-35-5)

Parents' family backgrounds

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vh Isao Kameshige Interview Segment 15 (ddr-one-7-35-15)

Visiting mother in camp while she had a medical operation

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vh Isao Kameshige Interview Segment 8 (ddr-one-7-35-8)

Memories of the Salinas Assembly Center

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vh Isao Kameshige Interview Segment 11 (ddr-one-7-35-11)

Jobs in camp: waiter and cook in the mess halls

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vh Isao Kameshige Interview Segment 3 (ddr-one-7-35-3)

Rejoining family in Oregon

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vh Isao Kameshige Interview Segment 21 (ddr-one-7-35-21)

Description of photographs

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vh Isao Kameshige Interview Segment 13 (ddr-one-7-35-13)

Coping with living conditions in camp

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vh Isao Kameshige Interview Segment 6 (ddr-one-7-35-6)

Attending elementary school

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vh Isao Kameshige Interview Segment 7 (ddr-one-7-35-7)

Hearing about the bombing of Pearl Harbor

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vh Isao Kameshige Interview Segment 9 (ddr-one-7-35-9)

The journey by train to Poston

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vh Isao Kameshige Interview Segment 16 (ddr-one-7-35-16)

Serving with the New York Harbor Patrol

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vh Isao Kameshige Interview Segment 18 (ddr-one-7-35-18)

Family's move to Oregon after leaving camp

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vh Isao Kameshige Interview Segment 14 (ddr-one-7-35-14)

Drafted into the military and serving in the Counterintelligence Corps

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vh Isao Kameshige Interview Segment 12 (ddr-one-7-35-12)

Leaving camp temporarily to work

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vh Isao Kameshige Interview Segment 17 (ddr-one-7-35-17)

Serving in Japan during the U.S. occupation

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vh Isao Kameshige Interview Segment 10 (ddr-one-7-35-10)

First arriving in Poston

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vh Isao Kameshige Interview Segment 20 (ddr-one-7-35-20)

Reflections

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vh Isao Kameshige Interview Segment 4 (ddr-one-7-35-4)

Description of siblings

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vh Isao Kameshige Interview Segment 19 (ddr-one-7-35-19)

Meeting future wife

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Narrator Isao Kameshige

Nisei male. Born April 13, 1925, in Galt, California. Grew up in Hollister, California. During World War II, removed to the Salinas Assembly Center, California, and the Poston concentration camp, Arizona. Drafted into the military and served with the Counterintelligence Corps in Japan during the U.S. occupation. After service, joined family in Ontario, Oregon.

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