Sexo

Male

Birth date

1921-12-17

Local de nascimento

Stockton CA, U.S.A.

Inducted

1945-11-20, Chicago IL

Tipo de alistamento

Draftee

Ramo das Forças Armadas

Army

Tipo de serviço

Peacetime

Tipo de Unidade

Support

Unidades onde serviu

Military Intelligence Service; Infantry

Military specialty

Language Specialist

Stationed

Ft. Sheridan, IL; Camp Gordon, GA; Ft. Snelling, MN; Presdio of Monterey, CA; Washington, DC.

Separated

Ft. George Meade MD

Unit responsibility

Cataloging of important Japanese military and scientific documents.

Personal responsibility

Cataloging of documents.

Most vivid memory of military experience

During the course of language instruction at Fort Snelling, MN, MISLS closed the school operation. I was among a number of students loaded on a troop train and moved to Presidio of Monterey, CA to continue schooling.

After graduation on 9/7/1946, some of us were assigned to Washington, DC to the PACMIRS (Pacific Military Intelligence Research Service) Detachment to catalogue captured and important military and scientific documents.

About 3 weeks prior to my discharge, two of us got orders to report to one of the offices of the Pentagon for more cataloging.

Being able to work inside and see some of the working of the Pentagon was my rare lifetime experience!

Additional information

Upon induction into the service, I was placed in the 'Enlisted Reserve Corps' as an unassigned Private and told to go home. Later, I was finally inducted, given another physical and sent to Camp Gordon, GA for basic (infantry) training. After basic, instead of reporting to Ft. Peterson, I was put on a troop train to Ft. Snelling, MN to undergo language training.