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Author Tamura, Linda, 1949-

Title Nisei soldiers break their silence : coming home to Hood River / Linda Tamura.

Publication Info. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 346 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies
Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; Oral History Methodology; Introduction; Part I: Early Years; 1. "Growing Up in Two Worlds" : Balancing Japanese America; 2. "Nice People So Long as They Are in a Minority" : The Japanese American Community in Hood River; Part II: World War II; 3. "Why Didn't You Tell Us the War Was Coming?" : Community Fallout from Pearl Harbor; 4. "Fighting for Good Uncle Sam" : Nisei Enter the Military; 5. "The Two-Sided Sword" : Wartime Changes for Japanese American Families; 6. "Getting Shot from Ahead of Us and Behind Us" : War in the South Pacific
7. "From Somewhere in Europe" : War in Europe8. "I've Got a Lot of Fighting to Do Right Here" : Charged with Willful Disobedience; 9. "Discard My Uniform for Good" : The End of the War; Part III: After the War; 10. "No Japes Wanted in Hood River" : The Hood River Situation; 11. "Ninety Percent Are Against the Japs!" : Veterans and Their Families Return; 12. "You Could Feel It" : Resettling in the Community and Elsewhere; 13. "Time Is a Good Healer" : Rebuilding; 14. "Guilty of Courage" : Discipline Barrack Boys' Appeals; Part IV: Today
15. "Opening the Closets of History" : The Community Today16. No "Ordinary Soldiers" : The Patriot Test; Afterword; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
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Subject World War (1939-1945)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Japanese American.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans.
Japanese Americans.
Japanese American soldiers -- Oregon -- Hood River -- History -- 20th century.
Japanese American soldiers.
Oregon -- Hood River.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Japanese American soldiers -- Oregon -- Hood River -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Hood River (Or.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Tamura, Linda, 1949- Nisei soldiers break their silence. Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2012 9780295992099 (DLC) 2012011201 (OCoLC)783520848
ISBN 9780295804460 (electronic book)
0295804467 (electronic book)
9780295992099
0295992093