Shiroku "Whitey" Yamamoto
442nd Antitank Company
442nd Antitank Company
Military Training at Camp Shelby
Whitey travels by ship to San Francisco and by train to Mississippi to reach Camp Shelby.
At Camp Shelby, he is selected for the Antitank Company and assigned to be a jeep driver.
There is a mix of volunteers from Hawaii and from the mainland. According to Whitey, "The only difference was that, they spoke perfect English, we were local boys, we talked more in pidgin."
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