日系アメリカ人兵役体験記録データベース
Benjamin Takeshi "Ben" Obata
Allied translator/interpreter Service (ATIS)
441st Counterintelligence Corps
U.S. Army Intelligence School.
Other Countries: 1/1944-6/1945: ATIS Australia - Interrogation of POW's and monitoring interrogation by others.
7/1945-9/1945: Philippines - Interrogations. Commissioned 2nd Lt.
10/1945-1950: Occupation of Japan, Various liaison activities. CIC activities from 1947-1950
6/1950-7/1951: Korean War. CIC Unit from Taegu, Seoul, Pyongyang and back to Seoul.
7/1951-10/1952: Tokyo. CIC duties as Operations Officer
10/1952-9/1953: CIC Unit, Chicago, IL. Officer-in-Charge of Chicago Loop Office
9/1953-5/1954:US Army Intelligence School, Ft. Holabird, MD. Attended advanced officer's course.
5/1954-5/1956: Army Intelligence School faculty as instructor
7/1956-12/1959: Okinawa. 526th INTC Detachment
2/1960-12/1963: Intelligence School Faculty, Ft. Holabird, MD
12/1963 retired from US Army after 21 yrs active duty
USA - Ft. Holabird, MD; Ft. Meade, MD; Chicago, IL; Australia, Philippines, Japan, Vietnam, Okinawa, Korea, Germany
Was stationed in the Philippine Islands but performed rear echelon activities such as interogations of POWs.