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RM: When did you go in the army? Do you remember approximately the month, year?

JK: This was, I went in, was inducted in end of May, the first of June, the second or, first or second of June. And I was sent immediately to Camp Shelby, (Mississippi) where they were training replacements for the infantry, 'cause they knew they needed a lot of replacements. 'Cause the 100th Battalion was already fighting, and much of the 442nd was broken up to be replacements for the 100th that was being disabled and killed.

RM: Why Camp Shelby? Was it, it certainly isn't European in climate, or anything. But why do you think they were sending people to Shelby? Just because it was there?

JK: It was kind of out-of-way place, and pretty much like all the camps. [Laughs]

RM: [Laughs] Did it feel just like another relocation camp?

JK: Well, but you know, we never got to go -- well I had one furlough in my thirteen weeks. It was a hurry-up, and they're supposed to give you a seventeen-week basic training. But this is only thirteen weeks because the Bruyeres campaign was going on at that time, and they needed replacements bad. As you know, they wiped out about half of the whole regiment at that time -- the Germans did -- and all the hard fighting. And so...

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