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TI: Any other stories from Camp Shelby that you could remember in terms of the type of training in terms of maybe handling weapons or anything like that that you could tell?

GS: While we were there, a group from Alaska, Alaskan, Aleutian Islands soldiers fighting the Japanese in Aleutian Islands, they camp back to Camp Shelby for R&R, they called, reserve, to take their basic training over again. And so they were, they saw us and we're "Japs," so they were calling us "Japs" and this and that. So we were fighting the Aleutian Islands, troops that were in the Aleutian Islands 'til the general came out and took everybody together and says, "He's an American, he's an American, he's an American." They all looked up, and he says, "We're all Americans," so he put this conflict down. So after that, they finally stopped, so we didn't have any troubles after that.

TI: That's interesting. I never heard, so these soldiers who were fighting the Japanese in the Aleutians, because I know about that, that they were then sent to Shelby, and they then saw you guys and they, they called you "Japs."

GS: Right.

TI: And there was this fighting and... do you think after the, the commanding officer said that that they understood that?

GS: They finally says, the 100th Battalion, and they found that the 100th Battalion --

TI: Right. Now, did these men end up fighting with you also or did they just move on to someplace else, these soldiers who fought in the Aleutians?

GS: No, they went somewhere else.

TI: Okay, so that was... okay, good.

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