Oral History Interview with Warren Tsuneishi, September 18, 2005 Page: 26
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Oral History Interview with Warren Tsuneishi, September 18, 2005 (Sound)
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Warren Tsuneishi. Tsuneishi was living in California when the war started and was soon evacuated to a Japanese-American detention center. He joined his family at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming. He did not stay there long as he was allowed to attend Syracuse University. In 1943, he entered the Military intelligence Language School and studied Japanese to become an interpreter. He participated in the invasion of Leyte Island and worked as a translator and interpreter. Tsuneishi also went to Okinawa as a translator. Tsuneishi provides unique insight from the Japanese American perspective of his time in the Army.
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Oral History Interview with Warren Tsuneishi, September 18, 2005, text, September 18, 2005; Fredericksburg, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1604887/m1/27/?rotate=180: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation.