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Title: Fred Tadashi Shingu Interview
Narrator: Fred Tadashi Shingu
Interviewers: Tom Ikeda, Martha Nakagawa
Location: Los Angeles, California
Date: July 29, 2010
Densho ID: denshovh-sfred_2-01-0023

TI: Yeah, when you were in the stockade, was there, there was, like, an inspection where they went through and wanted to find things like... oh, now I remember. So at one point, and there's, there are pictures I've seen, but they used to line everyone up in the stockade. Do you remember any incident about being lined up or anything like that?

FS: I guess, more or less they wanted a head count, so they line up right against the barrack. And I think right after that, I think they start, maybe that's when they start putting the people's name down on the paper. I think that's, I'm not positive, but that might have, that's what happened, I think, after that. Even though the, if you, I don't think you could see it clearly, but people that were lined up outside, outside like that, there was, there was a Jeep, Jeep with a gun pointed at us, machine gun pointed at us, and then another one. I think there was two. One was, seemed like one was a, one was a tank, and they were both, both of the guns were pointed at the whole group there. So I thought what the hell are they gonna do? Are they gonna shoot us?

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