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Banco de Dados da Experiência Militar Nipo-Americana

Kei Mikuriya

Sexo

Male

Birth date

1919-4-28

Local de nascimento

Los Angeles CA, U.S.A.

Inducted

1944-10-13, Ft. Sheridan IL

Tipo de alistamento

Draftee

Ramo das Forças Armadas

Army

Tipo de serviço

War

Tipo de Unidade

Support

Unidades onde serviu

MISLS B-25 (Graduated Snelling, Feb. 1945)
ATIS - 34th Inf. Bat., 29th Div.

Military specialty

Military Intelligence
Interpreter
Supply Sgt.

Stationed

USA: Ft. Snelling, MN
Other Countries: Japan - assigned to Marine in Sasebo; transferred to 34th (Takarazuka).

Unit responsibility

Occupation of Japan

Personal responsibility

Interpreting - when there wasn't interpreting, I helped in the supply room. Later became the supply Sgt.

Most vivid memory of military experience

Trying to talk to children in Japan - couldn't understand them and they said to me, 'You talk funny.' The kids spoke a different language than what they taught us at M.I.S.