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vh Tad Sato Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1000-82-13)

Working for Great Northern Railway allows some to avoid concentration camps

Due to technical difficulties, this interview has audio problems in its second half.

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vh Tad Sato Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-82-11)

Going to work on a railroad gang in Montana

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vh Tad Sato Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-82-4)

Father's pick-up by the FBI: the possibility that he was turned in by Japanese "stool pigeons"

Due to technical difficulties, this interview has audio problems in its second half.

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vh Tad Sato Segment 21 (ddr-densho-1000-82-21)

Typical meals, "miso shiru" one day, bread and jam the next while working on the Great Northern Railway during the war

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vh Tad Sato Segment 15 (ddr-densho-1000-82-15)

Spending time in neighboring towns while working for the railroad

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vh Tad Sato Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-82-2)

Working in Seattle's Public Market prior to the war

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vh Tad Sato Segment 26 (ddr-densho-1000-82-26)

Redress for Japanese rail workers, not incarcerated but still impacted

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vh Tad Sato Segment 18 (ddr-densho-1000-82-18)

Working alongside white employees of the Great Northern Railway

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vh Tad Sato Segment 20 (ddr-densho-1000-82-20)

Description of the Japanese American work ethic

Due to technical difficulties, this interview has audio problems in its second half.

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vh Tad Sato Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-82-10)

Feeling disillusioned about college since Nisei with college degrees weren't getting hired

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vh Tad Sato Segment 25 (ddr-densho-1000-82-25)

Impact of equal employment laws; still no women or minorities at the top

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vh Tad Sato Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1000-82-16)

Visiting father at the Kooskia internment camp, Idaho

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vh Tad Sato Segment 19 (ddr-densho-1000-82-19)

Mixing of people of different ethnic backgrounds at railroad job

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img "Bows Out in Blaze of Glory" (ddr-densho-201-224)

Caption on front: "Bows Out In Blaze of Glory." Caption on side: "C. Company, Cpt. Walter Johnson, 1st Lt. Anthony Deluca, 1st Lt. Samuel Leibitz, 1st Lt. Bert Tanaka. Kenge Sakagami, Imoto, Omoto, Urada, Shikuma, Takahashi, Bob Sato, C. Co 442nd?"

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img "Bows Out in Blaze of Glory" (ddr-densho-201-225)

Caption on front: "Bows Out In Blaze of Glory." Caption on side: "C. Company, Cpt. Walter Johnson, 1st Lt. Anthony Deluca, 1st Lt. Samuel Leibitz, 1st Lt. Bert Tanaka. Kenge Sakagami, Imoto, Omoto, Urada, Shikuma, Takahashi, Bob Sato, C. Co 442nd?"

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img Memorial service for fallen soldiers (ddr-fom-1-468)

The soldiers honored during this service were: Pfc. Akira Kanzaki, Pvt. Yohei Sagami, Pfc. Yoshito Noritake, Pfc. Hideo Yasui, Pfc. Yoshio Kato, Cpl. Jimmy T. Kokubu, Sgt. Ban Ninomiya, Pvt. Shin Sato, Pfc. George S. Miyaoka, Sgt. Ned T. Nakamura.

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img Memorial service for fallen soldiers (ddr-fom-1-467)

The soldiers honored during this service were: Pfc. Akira Kanzaki, Pvt. Yohei Sagami, Pfc. Yoshito Noritake, Pfc. Hideo Yasui, Pfc. Yoshio Kato, Cpl. Jimmy T. Kokubu, Sgt. Ban Ninomiya, Pvt. Shin Sato, Pfc. George S. Miyaoka, Sgt. Ned T. Nakamura.

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img Wedding party (ddr-densho-259-510)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Wedding party of Eiko Yamaki [Tadakuma] and Tomonori Tom Morikado of Los Angeles The directory, Japanese-Americans of the Mid-Columbia Area and Relatives, states the Morikado was an Issei, born in Fukuoka ken, Japan."

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img Women in kimonos performing at Parks Air Force Base (ddr-ajah-3-247)

Caption below photo: L to R: Satoko Sugiyama Furuichi, Kiyomi Sugiyama Uyeda, Jean Hattori Howard, Kiyoko Sato Masuda, Atsuko Sugiyama Taniguchi. Alameda Japanese young women from the Buddhist Temple entertain the men at Parks Air Force Base in Dublin, CA in August 1954

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img Valentine's Day potluck at Oregon Buddhist Church (ddr-one-1-60)

Color slide of young women filling plates at a Valentine's Day potluck at Oregon Buddhist Church (now known as the Oregon Buddhist Temple). From left to right: Kathleen "Kathie" Haruko (Matsuda) Sato, unidentified, Rose Haruye (Muramatsu) Ouchida, Jean Matsumoto, and Michiko (Masuoka) Nishioka.

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img Four men in a field (ddr-densho-259-23)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Eiikichi Kusachi, Masuo Yasui, John Young and Tadao Sato standing in a field, with a couple of low, bare hills in the background. Kusachi was a pioneer Issei who lived in Dee, and he was always very prominent in the HR [Hood River] Nipponjin community affairs...John Young sold insurance in Hood River, …

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img Issei men at a funeral (ddr-densho-259-340)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Group of 50 or more well dressed Issei men, many of whom appear to be wearing black armbands, so this may have been a post-funeral scene. This gathering may have been to mourn the death of the Emperor Meiji."

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img Married couple and mother in Japanese garden (ddr-densho-259-130)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Japanese photograph of Ichiro Miyake ([Shidzuyo Yasui's] father) who was born on August 28, 1865; [Shidzuyo's] mother, Hisa Fujii Miyake, who was born on March 3, 1865, and Ichiro's mother, whose maiden name was Tsuna Sato, who was born on March 3, 1838."

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img Issei men wearing derbies on a hillside (ddr-densho-259-334)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Group of twelve well dressed Issei men, most of whom are also wearing derbies, and sitting among a field of bracken fern on a side hill. I think that this was taken at the Vista House on the Columbia River highway [in Crown Point, Oregon]."

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av Sumiko Sumi Seki Interview (ddr-densho-400-21)

Sumiko Seki was born on November 24, 1924, in San Pedro, California. She was one of Midori and Kazue Seo's three children. Her father was a farmer in San Pedro and her mother was a housewife. When the war broke out she and her family were sent to Jerome concentration camp in Arkansas. When the war …

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