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Katsumi Okamoto Interview Segment 5 (ddr-manz-1-24-5)
Activities as a child, participating in sports
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Katsumi Okamoto Interview Segment 22 (ddr-manz-1-24-22)
Being drafted, joining the Military Intelligence Service
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Katsumi Okamoto Interview Segment 14 (ddr-manz-1-24-14)
Participating in social activities in camp
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Katsumi Okamoto Interview Segment 25 (ddr-manz-1-24-25)
Attending college, earning a food science degree
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Katsumi Okamoto Interview Segment 11 (ddr-manz-1-24-11)
Activities at the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho
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Katsumi Okamoto Interview Segment 10 (ddr-manz-1-24-10)
First impressions of Puyallup Assembly Center: "everything was disorganized"
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Katsumi Okamoto Interview Segment 16 (ddr-manz-1-24-16)
Temporarily leaving camp as a farm laborer
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Katsumi Okamoto Interview Segment 1 (ddr-manz-1-24-1)
Born in Seattle, Washington; description of siblings
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Letter from Tadashi Ishida to Mr. & Mrs. Y Ishida (ddr-densho-535-262)
Got his pay; had dinner with his old company; a friend (Katsumi Kawaguchi) reenlisted and is headed to the Pacific theater after a furlough; requests more magazines. Parents' note on envelope back: 264 Saturday Oct. 13, 1945 request for magazines
Narrator Katsumi Okamoto
Nisei male. Born July 5, 1926, in Seattle, Washington. Grew up in Seattle, where parents owned and operated a grocery store. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, removed to Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Served in Japan with the Military Intelligence Service following World War II.