Nisei soldiers break their silence : coming home to Hood River /
Tamura, Linda, 1949-
Nisei soldiers break their silence : coming home to Hood River / Linda Tamura. - Seattle : University of Washington Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource (xx, 346 pages) - - The Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9780295804460
2021694768
World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Japanese American.
World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans.
Hood River (Or.)--Ethnic relations--History--20th century.
Electronic Books.
D753 / .N574 2012
Nisei soldiers break their silence : coming home to Hood River / Linda Tamura. - Seattle : University of Washington Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource (xx, 346 pages) - - The Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9780295804460
2021694768
World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Japanese American.
World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans.
Hood River (Or.)--Ethnic relations--History--20th century.
Electronic Books.
D753 / .N574 2012