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Devoe, Susan Internment Camp Life
[Annotator's Note: Susan Magnuson Devoe and her family were forced into the Santo Tomas Internment Camp or Manila...
Devoe, Susan Internment Camp Life
Susan Magnuson Devoe says that people had to adapt to camp life [Annotator's Note: as internees at the Santo Tomas...
Matsumoto, Roy Internment Camps
Roy H. Matsumoto listened to news reports from Japan on his shortwave radio. He could tell some of it was propaganda,...
Yoshihashi, Tokuji Internment of Japanese-Americans and Having Relatives in the Japanese Army
In January or February 1942, President Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt] signed Executive Order...
Doi, Jimmy Internment, Defense Plants and Experiencing Racism
Jimmy Doi and his family were informed in March [Annotator's Note: March 1942] that they were being sent to an...
Lorenzen, Angus Interred in Manila
There was a nice beach [Annotator's Note: in a cove along the Batang Peninsula] where Angus Lorenzen and his fellow...
Rinas, Bruno Japan and War's End
When he arrived in Japan, Bruno S. Rinas was loaded onto a train. He was given some food and Rinas enjoyed it. Rinas...
Iguchi, Takeo Japanese Embassy
Takea Iguchi was 10 years old when his father was sent to New York to assist the ambassador. They moved to Washington,...
Inoshita, Masaji Japanese Feelings About Serving in the US Army
Masaji Inoshita had very little contact with his parents over the course of the war. He would ask the Japanese...
Alexander, Samson Japanese Internment and Creole Relatives
Samson Alexander says the Japanese people [Annotator's Note: Japanese-Americans] were the backbone of Americanism...
Devoe, Susan Japanese Invade Manila
Susan Magnuson Devoe was born in Manila [Annotator's Note: Manila, Philippines] in June 1940. Her father worked as an...
Hirabayashi, Grant Japanese Surrender in China and Going Home
Grant Jiro Hirabayashi recalled preparing to go to Japan for an invasion, but he also knew from interrogating many...
Ream, John Japanese Takeover
John Ream had to learn what war was. He thought the hike to Camp John Hay [Annotator’s Note: Camp John Hay in Baguio,...
Shima, Terry Japanese-American Internment
Terry Shima's family was not interned during the war. There was not a mass internment in Hawaii. When President...
Bannai, Paul Japanese-American Internment
When the war started, Paul Takeo Bannai registered for the draft, hoping to fight for his country. He was not called up...
Imahara, Walter Jerome War Relocation Center
They [Annotator's Note: Walter Imahara and many of the other Japanese-Americans held at the Fresno Assembly Center]...
Inoshita, Masaji Joining the Army, Language Training and Overseas Deployment
[Annotator's Note: Masaji Insohita served in the Army as a Japanese translator and interrogator in the China-Burma-...
Vargas, Jay Joining the Marines Corps and Reflections
Jay R. Vargas had a gift of playing baseball and he ended up joining the L.A. [Annotator's Note: Los Angleles,...
Bannai, Paul Joining the Military Intelligence Service (MIS)
Paul Takeo Bannai decided to go to Washington D.C. to lobby for the inclusion of Japanese-Americans in the military. He...
Kawamoto, Yukio Known and Unknown Family
Yukio Kawamoto's parents did not have to divulge too much about how their time in the camp went. Kawamoto had gotten a...
Muller, Henry Liberating Los Baños
Henry Muller and the 11th Airborne Division, Eighth US Army, were attacking Manila, Philippines. The Japanese had...
Asher, Adolph Liberating Prisoners
Adolph Edward Asher went to Dachau [Annotator's Note: Dachau concentration camp complex near Dachau, Germany]. Every...
Noe, Leanne Liberation
Leanne Blinzler Noe [Annotator's note: a child internee at Santo Tomas Internment Camp, or, Manila Internment Camp,...
Irvine, Elizabeth "Elizabeth Lautzenheiser" Liberation
Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine and other internees [Annotator's Note: in the Santo Tomas Internment Camp, or, Manila...
Damberg, Wanda LIberation
Wanda Damberg got up to go to the bathroom one morning and saw a nun along the way [Annotator’s Note: Damberg was in...
Devoe, Susan Liberation and Postwar
Susan Magnuson Devoe remembers being liberated [Annotator's Note: from the Santo Tomas Internment Camp, or, Manila...
Woodham, Greg Liberation and Return to America
Greg Woodham and his mother were interned at Santo Tomas [Annotator’s Note: Santo Tomas Internment Camp, also known as...
Warne, Therese Liberation and Shelling
Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: An American child prisoner in the Philippines during World War 2] was...
Warne, Therese Life as an Internee
Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: was an American child prisoner in the Philippines during World War 2] was an...
Bradley, John Life at Camp
For food, John Bradley and the internees [Annotator's Note: in the Santo Tomas Internment Camp, or, Manila Internment...
Imahara, Walter Life Before Internment
Walter Imahara was born in February 1937 in Florin, California, a farming community just outside of Sacramento. His...
Bailey Pratt, Caroline Life in an Interment Camp
[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee taps a cup throughout the segment.] Caroline Bailey Pratt and her family were interned...
Gagel, Helen "Cosgrove" Life in Manila
In New Guinea, Helen Gagel lived in a tent with a cot. In the Philippines, she had a tent until she was over at the...
Lewis, Karen Life in Santo Tomas
In 1942, Karen K. Lewis and her parents were interred at Santo Tomas Internment Camp [Annotator’s Note: Santo Tomas...
Woodham, Greg Life in Santo Tomas
Greg Woodham and his mother were interned at Santo Tomas [Annotator’s Note: Santo Tomas Internment Camp, also known as...
Matsumoto, Roy Life in the Internment Camp
Roy H. Matsumoto was first forced into an assembly center which was a racetrack [Annotator's Note: Santa Anita...

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