Price for Peace
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they quite often think
about D-Day as being Normandy,
and Utah Beach, 'cause they got
the most play in the media,
but there were at least 40 in the Pacific,
some just as bad, if not worse, than
the casualties on D-Day in Normandy.
The beaches were calm,
and there were palm trees.
I remember looking down
at the palm trees and wondering
if I was about to die
in this peaceful place.
At Pearl Harbor on the morning
of December 7, it was Sunday morning,
a lot of men had had liberty
the night before.
Some were having breakfast,
some going to church, some asleep.
The Zeros coming off the Japanese
carriers began to appear in Hawaii.
They found us completely unprepared.
We couldn't believe
what was happening. It was so fast.
I was getting mad because they were
knocking not only our ships out,
but they were knocking out
a major part of our air power.
We were looking towards the USS
Arizona and there was a huge explosion.
I'd never seen anything like it.
It was just one big ball of fire.
I never thought about dying
or anything like that.
I was only focused on my target.
Everything was on fire.
Everything looked like it was exploding.
I knew I was supposed to knock
this plane down in front of me,
to get on his tail and shoot him down,
and I managed to do that.
You see all of that,
then this hate starts to come in.
And, damn it, this is war, this is war.
The Imperial army and navy,
before daybreak on December 8th,
went into battle against the US
and British forces in the West Pacific.
The precision of the attack
was perfect in every way.
We lost 2400 people in Pearl
Harbor, December 7th 1941.
Everybody wanted revenge,
total revenge. I know I did.
I wanted to destroy the whole nation
of Japan. I hated 'em. Everybody did.
They made the American people so mad,
there would never be
any compromise in this war.
We're going for
unconditional surrender.
The American people
in their righteous might
will win through to absolute victory.
We just knew that we were the enemy.
We were considered the enemy because
Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor.
I didn't even know
where Pearl Harbor was.
My father was born on 4 July,
and he made sure we put the flag out
and everything.
We were brought up to be Americans.
There was a feeling in Pearl Harbor
that the Japanese Americans in Hawaii
had been giving information
to the Japanese forces in Tokyo.
We were afraid they'd do this
on the West Coast.
But there had been not a single incident
of sabotage or spying.
None of that happened.
Japanese Americans
from the West Coast were interned
into ten internment camps
across the US.
We were told we could only bring
what we could carry.
And so most of our things
we had to leave behind.
They were rounded up and put
into camps that they were guarded in.
When we arrived and saw the buildings,
it was very, very depressing.
How would you like to be taken away,
to know that people
are watching you all the time,
that your letters are being read,
that you can't communicate with people?
My brother used to put it this way:
It's like you've been raped
by somebody you trusted.
And so you can't talk about it.
It was your country that did this to you.
And you couldn't talk about it for years.
Young Japanese Americans
volunteered for the US Armed Services,
even as their families were held
in these camps.
My uppermost thought was,
they've stripped me of my citizenship,
which was most valuable to me.
Therefore, when they gave me
a chance to join the military,
that was my liberation,
that restored my citizenship.
It was one of the happiest moments
of my life.
The little town I was in,
they went en masse to sign up.
The guys who hung around the filling
station were now in the service.
There was no problem getting
volunteers. Everybody was willing to go.
They had recruiting lines
three blocks long.
All of the services were taking in
thousands of recruits a day.
Most people who volunteered
could choose navy, marines, army.
I liked the army.
I didn't feel like a sailor,
didn't feel like a flyer.
Even the marines didn't appeal to me,
too much PR.
The marines had great public relations.
Every time somebody said,
"You in the Pacific?" "Yeah."
"Marine?" "No." "Navy?"
"No. Army."
"Oh, were you in the Pacific?"
"Yeah. Damn right I was in the Pacific!"
I went into the US navy.
The navy was segregated.
At that time, blacks could only be
stewards' mates.
You waited on the officers and cleaned
their rooms. Things of that nature.
I cannot think of anybody
that did not have just one objective.
"Let's pay them back for this little job
and get it over with."
There was no question
what we had to do.
We'd seen signs saying,
"Uncle Sam needs you."
America was 16th in the world
in the size of its armed forces,
right behind Romania.
Now we were in the war.
the American armed forces
were number one in the world.
All the services were going full tilt.
The coastguard
had expanded tremendously
because they had to guard
the whole US coast and the rivers.
The navy had to worry about two wars.
Well, the war in Europe
had been going on for several years,
but things were happening
in the Pacific with the Japanese
saying they didn't have any resources,
and had to enlarge their empire
to gain the resources
necessary to support their people.
They were already involved
in a war in China
that was a big drain
on the Japanese army.
Korea was already a colony.
They were taking on
the whole of the Pacific world.
As long as the US navy had a
large presence in the South Pacific,
Japan's military
was not able to succeed.
That's why the decision was made
to attack America.
Who's gonna command
in the Pacific was a big question.
Douglas MacArthur would command
in the South-West Pacific,
Chester Nimitz would be in command
in the Central Pacific.
The Americans
were now beginning to build.
We had carriers being built
at the shipyards.
We'd started a draft that brought
millions into the armed forces.
They had to be trained and equipped.
America was gearing up for war.
Over the training periods,
we developed a lot of camaraderie
with each other.
The training first of all put emphasis
on your physical conditioning.
It was hard physically.
They'd just drill you constantly.
Here's people,
when you say, "Rear march,"
you got one going one way
and one going the other.
They took us to firing ranges,
they took us tank training,
they even gave us tank training.
We were taught how to use
every weapon the infantry has:
Everything from machine guns,
mortars, rifles, carbines, pistols.
We in hospital school learned the basic
physiology and anatomy of the body.
We learned the number of bones
and where they were located.
"The knee bone's
connected to the thigh bone."
Our forces were adequately trained.
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