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vh Taylor Tomita Interview Segment 13 (ddr-one-7-61-13)

Transferring to Minidoka after the so-called "loyalty questionnaire"

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vh Taylor Tomita Interview Segment 11 (ddr-one-7-61-11)

Living conditions at the Pinedale Assembly Center

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vh Taylor Tomita Interview Segment 5 (ddr-one-7-61-5)

Feeling that parents sacrificed for their children

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vh Taylor Tomita Interview Segment 14 (ddr-one-7-61-14)

Being drafted and serving in the army

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vh Taylor Tomita Interview Segment 17 (ddr-one-7-61-17)

Reflections

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vh Taylor Tomita Interview Segment 15 (ddr-one-7-61-15)

Returning home and experiencing discrimination

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vh Taylor Tomita Interview Segment 12 (ddr-one-7-61-12)

Building furniture out of scrap lumber

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vh Taylor Tomita Interview Segment 9 (ddr-one-7-61-9)

Deciding what to take during mass removal

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vh Taylor Tomita Interview Segment 16 (ddr-one-7-61-16)

Starting a Nisei bowling league

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vh Taylor Tomita Interview Segment 1 (ddr-one-7-61-1)

Father's family background

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vh Taylor Tomita Interview Segment 10 (ddr-one-7-61-10)

Memories of the train ride to the assembly center

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vh Taylor Tomita Interview Segment 7 (ddr-one-7-61-7)

Rehearsing for a stage performance when Pearl Harbor was bombed

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vh Taylor Tomita Interview Segment 3 (ddr-one-7-61-3)

Helping on family's strawberry farm as a child

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vh Taylor Tomita Interview Segment 4 (ddr-one-7-61-4)

Attending elementary school

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vh Taylor Tomita Interview Segment 2 (ddr-one-7-61-2)

Father's early life and work in the U.S.

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vh Taylor Tomita Interview Segment 8 (ddr-one-7-61-8)

Disposing of possessions after the bombing of Pearl Harbor

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vh Taylor Tomita Interview Segment 6 (ddr-one-7-61-6)

Prewar community events at the Japanese Community Hall

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img Friends on the Balcony (ddr-one-1-622)

Black and white photographic negative of three Nisei standing on a balcony laughing. A newspaper and wallet sit on the ledge. From left to right: unidentified, Jean Yasuko (Kida) Tomita, and unidentified.

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img Sitting on the Beach (ddr-one-1-618)

Black and white photographic negative of five Nisei girls sitting on the beach, two drinking bottles of soda. From left to right: Betty Nakashimada, unidentified, Martha Fujii, Jean (Kida) Tomita, and unidentified.

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img Joe Iwataki with two women and man at night club (ddr-ajah-2-825)

Caption: Joe Iwataki and friends visit a night club while on furlough from Manila, Philippines during WWII. Iwataki and Tomita had known each other since their days of basic training at Fort Ord, near Monterey, CA., in 1941. The pair continued their friendship at Camp Savage in Minnesota, training with Military Intelligence Service. This May-June 1945 …

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