Wartime Memories

Tag: 1925

  • Remi (Lemi) Sekine

    F07, Remi (Lemi) Sekine ‘97, Grandfather, 1925,   Shizuoka, Ibaraki, Gifu In December 1995, I asked my grandfather about his experiences during World War II. He was born in 1925, so he is 70 years old now. When my grandfather was 19 years old, he enlisted in the Japanese Army. It was on April 20, 1944…

  • Daniel Bissonnette

    H01U, Daniel Bissonnette ‘00, George Tanaka, Family friend, 1925, United States George Tanaka, a family friend who is staying at my grandmother’s house in California, agreed to be interviewed by telephone on his experiences in a relocation camp during the Second World War. George Tanaka, a second-generation Japanese-American, was relocated to a camp in southwest…