Densho Digital Archive
Manzanar National Historic Site Collection
Title: Eddie Owada Interview
Narrator: Eddie Owada
Interviewer: Alisa Lynch
Location: Denver, Colorado
Date: July 5, 2008
Densho ID: denshovh-oeddie-01-0019

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AL: What did you think when you got your draft notice in Minidoka?

EO: My draft notice? To me, it was fine. I'm ready to go, be in the army. I was expecting it. 'Cause it was in the summer, that summer that I got my notice for my physical.

AL: Is this 1944?

EO: 1944.

AL: What did your father think, or say at the time?

EO: He didn't say anything to me, as I recall. I was, that was fine. It's... you're American, you're gonna go fight for America.

AL: Where did you go for training?

EO: Camp Hood, Texas. At that time it was Camp Hood. Now it's Fort Hood. At that time it was Camp Hood and it was the main training area for the anti-tank, shall we say, trainees. They had a half track and there was, the decal was the face of a roaring tiger. But we trained as infantryman.

AL: Okay.

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