| Title: |
Frank Koo Endo
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
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| Collection: |
Asian Americans: South Bay/Los Angeles Nisei
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| Description: |
Frank Endo was born in Wilmington, California and grew up on Terminal Island, California. He taught gymnastics at Santa Anita, California Race Track and at the concentration camp in Amache, Colorado where he was imprisoned. Endo worked in Chicago during WWII and served in the US Army's Military Intelligence Service. He participated in the war crimes tribunal investigations in Osaka, Japan. Endo married in Japan and brought his wife back to live in Gardena.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Audio: |
[Audio available]
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| Speaker: |
Endo, Frank Koo
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Los Angeles, CA; California; United States; North America
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| Speaker race: |
Asian
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| Speaker occupation: |
Intelligence officer; Investigator; Military personnel
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Organizations discussed: |
Granada Relocation Center, Ameche, CO; U.S. Army
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| Historical events discussed: |
Bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941; Japanese American Internment, 1942-1945; World War II, 1939-1945
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| Locations discussed: |
Asia; California; Colorado; Gardena, CA; Japan; Los Angeles, CA; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Asia; Bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941; California; Colorado; Gardena, CA; Granada Relocation Center, Ameche, CO; Japan; Japanese American Internment, 1942-1945; Japanese American soldiers; Los Angeles, CA; Military intelligence--United States; North America; Oral history; U.S. Army; United States; World War II, 1939-1945
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| ASP release: |
2007-01
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| Document code: |
OHI0035143-38711
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