Sexo

Male

Birth date

1923-12-01

Local de nascimento

Marysville CA, USA

Inducted

1945-06-01, Ft. Logan CO

Tipo de alistamento

Draftee

Ramo das Forças Armadas

Army

Tipo de serviço

War,peacetime

Tipo de Unidade

Support

Unidades onde serviu

FEC-GHQ
357th Hq Intel Det
IX Corps
11th Airborne

Military specialty

Interrogations Officer - Active Duty
Staff Judge Advocate - Prosecution/Defense Atty - Reserve Duty

Stationed

USA: Texas; Minnesota; Washington D.C.
Other Countries: Japan

Separated

Ft. Lewis WA

Unit responsibility

Processing POW's, Diplomats, Repatriates
Miscellaneous Occupation Duties

Personal responsibility

Interrogations Officer
Staff Judge Advocate
S-2

Awards, medals, citations (individual or unit)

WW II Victory Medal
Occupation of Japan Medal
American Service Medal
Meritorious Service Medal
Reserve Officers Service Medal

Most vivid memory of military experience

Seeing the aftermath of war (Japan - Korea - Philippines) and sufferings of non-combatants.

Missed most whilst in the military

Private civilian life. Home Cooking.

Most important thing, personally, to come from military experience?

Most Niseis who served in the military sacrificed a great deal for those at home.

Additional information

Interned at Amache Japanese Internment Camp, Granada, CO in 1942.
After returning from MIS service in Japan, he attended University to Northern Colorado, graduating in 1950. That same year he entered George Washington University Law School and received his Juris Doctorate in two years.
After graduating, he worked for the Legal Department, Veterans Administration in Denver, and in 1954 he moved to Ontario, OR, to join a law firm.
In 1956 he was appointed Assistant Attorney General , Oregon Department of Justice, serving as Chief Counsel from 1956-1975.
Within the Oregon State Bar he served as Chairman of the Legal Aid Committee, Chairman of the Civil Rights Committee and was appointed to the Oregon/US Civil Rights Advisory Commission.
He served as President of Portland JACL in 1966.
In 1975 he left Oregon to serve as the Special Assistant to the District Attorney of San Francisco as founder and first Director of the Family Support Bureau.
He retired in 1986.
He continued to serve in the US Army Reserves JAG Corps from 1959-1978. He was appointed Judge Advocate for the Oregon Reserve Officers Association, Chief Legal Officer and Governmental Affairs Division Chief, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1978.