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Tomi Taba was born in 1916 in Lawai on the island of Kauai, Hawaii to Okinawan parents. As a young child, she was adopted by a relative of her biological father. Growing up, she attended school in the neighboring town of Kalaheo and worked with her adoptive parents on the pineapple farm owned by her father. After her marriage, she moved in with her husband’s family, and she recalls being pregnant with her second son during the time of the Pearl Harbor attack. In this interview, Taba discusses her adoption, growing up in Kauai, her Okinawan heritage, Pearl Harbor and how it affected life in Kauai, interactions with US soldiers, her conversion to Christianity after the war, and her family.

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Tomi Taba: Rosie the Riveter WWII American Home Front Oral History Project
Creator
Taba, Tomi, interviewee
Dunham, David, interviewer
Fukumoto, Candice, interviewer
Published
Berkeley, CA, Oral History Center, 2016
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Full Collection Name
Rosie the Riveter World War II American Home Front Oral Histories
Subject (Topic)
Community and Identity
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Text
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Oral histories.
Archive
The Bancroft Library Oral History Center
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Interview date(s) 2014
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