Instructional Video
Library of Congress

Loc: Experiencing War: Asian Pacific Americans: Going for Broke

9th - 10th
The stories of eight Asian Americans who have served in the American army and navy are told here through video and audio interviews, photos, memoirs and documents. The emphasis is on those who served in World War II, but a few were in...
Instructional Video
University of Hawai'i

Hawaii Nisei Project: Americans of Japanese Ancestry During World War Ii

9th - 10th
Meet Takejiro Higa. In order to avoid being drafted into Japan's Manchuria Development Youth Corps, he begged his sister for fare to flee to Hawaii in 1939. A few years later while working in Oahu, Higa watched the bombing of Pearl...
Instructional Video
Other

Go for Broke National Education Center: Hanashi Oral History Program

9th - 10th
The stories of Japanese-American soldiers' experiences up to and during World War II and on to today are chronicled on this site.