Sexo

Male

Fecha de Nacimiento

1919-8-7

Lugar de Nacimiento

Gardena CA, U.S.A.

Inducted

1947-8-14, Chicago IL

Tipo de Alistamiento

Volunteer

Afiliación Militar

Army

Tipo de servicio prestado

War,peacetime

Tipo de unidad militar

Combat,sup

Unidades a las que sirvió

24th Infantry Division Headquarters G-2 Section

Especialidad militar

Interpreter, Interrogator and Translator (Japanese)

Asignado

Fort Ord,CA, Presidio of Monterey,CA, Japan , Korea

Retirado

San Francisco CA

Responsabilidad en la unidad

Peacetime translator in Japan; During Korean War as IPW Team (War Prisoner Interrogation Team)

Responsabilidad individual

Chief Interpreter

Batallas principales (si sirvió en una zona de guerra)

From Pusan to Yalu River during Korean War

Reconocimientos, medallas, menciones (individuales o de la unidad)

Bronze Star Medal (Korean War); Korean Service Medal; Army of Occupation Medal with Clasp - Japan; other medals, etc., record was lost when personnel officer lost the unit's records during war action.

Condiciones de Vida

Summer time - Slept outdoors in trenches; Winter time - Slept in icy snow rice paddies; Summer time - dunked into river with GI clothes on to bathe; Winter time - wiped body with hot towels; Ate 'C' rations - no hot meals; No entertainment - kept busy interrogating prisoners

Recuerdo más vívido de la experiencia militar

Seeing the refugees moving from village to village with their little children.

Enemies mixing with refugees to carry out their attacks on soldiers.

Seeing dead bodies piled high along the side of the road covered with flies.

Korean villagers who were not sympathetic toward American GI's fighting for their cause.

My General Dean captured by the enemy.

Lo que más extraño durante su tiempo en las fuerzas armadas

Sleeping in bed on white sheets and my family. To be able to see baby son (born while I was stationed at Kokura, Japan).

¿En lo personal, qué obtuvo de su experiencia militar?

I learned to take orders and to REPORT. Also, I learned to speak English pretty fast due to my Hawaiian buddies (tho' it was Hawaiian style).

Información adicional

Since I was a Kibei and graduated from High School in Japan and the Army Language School, I was capable of interrogating prisoners to get information that our headquarters needed. Therefore I was lucky to come back alive - since our camp was situated away from the battle area.

So learn any second language if you have a chance. It might save your life.

A picture of my son at three years of age with my military shoulder patch on a child's uniform is in the file.