Japanese-American MIS veteran talks experience in WWII

HONOLULU, United States - Takejiro Higa talks about his work at the Military Intelligence Service of the U.S. Army during World War II in an interview in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Aug. 10, 2014. As part of his assignment, he was stationed in Okinawa, Japan, in his father's hometown, where he spent his childhood from two to 16 years old.

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