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Virgil W. Westdale Interview Segment 14 (ddr-densho-1000-280-14)
Attending college and playing football
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Virgil W. Westdale Interview Segment 37 (ddr-densho-1000-280-37)
Seeing a German fighter plane flying over
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Virgil W. Westdale Interview Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1000-280-16)
Hearing about the bombing of Pearl Harbor
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Virgil W. Westdale Interview Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-280-7)
Growing up on family farm; raising peppermint
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Virgil W. Westdale Interview Segment 38 (ddr-densho-1000-280-38)
The splitting off of the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion from the 442nd Regimental Combat Team
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Virgil W. Westdale Interview Segment 20 (ddr-densho-1000-280-20)
Earning private and commercial pilot licenses
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Virgil W. Westdale Interview Segment 42 (ddr-densho-1000-280-42)
Taking Dachau prisoners to neighboring homes to ask for food or clothing
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Virgil W. Westdale Interview Segment 49 (ddr-densho-1000-280-49)
Working for the Transportation Security Administration at the age of ninety-one
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Virgil W. Westdale Interview Segment 17 (ddr-densho-1000-280-17)
Having to temporarily withdraw from flight school because of Japanese ancestry
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Virgil W. Westdale Interview Segment 47 (ddr-densho-1000-280-47)
Memories of last flight as a pilot
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Virgil W. Westdale Interview Segment 29 (ddr-densho-1000-280-29)
Hearing about the service of the 100th Battalion
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Virgil W. Westdale Interview Segment 40 (ddr-densho-1000-280-40)
Encountering survivors of one of the Dachau concentration camps
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Virgil W. Westdale Interview Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-280-8)
Learning to drive a Model T Ford at the age of nine
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Virgil W. Westdale Interview Segment 30 (ddr-densho-1000-280-30)
Joining of the 100th Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team
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Virgil W. Westdale Interview Segment 25 (ddr-densho-1000-280-25)
Joining the Fire Direction Center with the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion
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Virgil W. Westdale Interview Segment 21 (ddr-densho-1000-280-21)
Becoming a commercial instrument flight instructor
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Virgil W. Westdale Interview Segment 32 (ddr-densho-1000-280-32)
The devastation of Hill 140: first battle experience
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Virgil W. Westdale Interview Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-280-9)
Description of farm procedures: processing hay
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Virgil W. Westdale Interview Segment 48 (ddr-densho-1000-280-48)
Publishing memoirs: first time sharing wartime experiences
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Virgil W. Westdale Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-280-10)
Father's role as an "innovator" in farming
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Virgil W. Westdale Interview Segment 28 (ddr-densho-1000-280-28)
Being shipped overseas, landing in Italy