Banco de Dados da Experiência Militar Nipo-Americana
Saburo Kunitake
Sexo
Male
Birth date
1934-10-26
Local de nascimento
Puunene HI, U.S.A.
Inducted
1953-7-10, Kahului, Maui HI
Tipo de alistamento
Volunteer
Ramo das Forças Armadas
Usmc
Tipo de serviço
Peacetime
Tipo de Unidade
Support
Unidades onde serviu
1st and 5th Marine
Military specialty
Infantry
Stationed
USA: Oceanside, CA; Long Beach, CA; Seal Beach, CA; San Diego, CA
Other Countries: Korea
Other Countries: Korea
Unit responsibility
Peace keeping/First Marine
Major battles (if served in a war zone)
Korea
Awards, medals, citations (individual or unit)
Korean Service Medal
National Defense Service Medal
United Nations Service Medal
Good Conduct Medal
National Defense Service Medal
United Nations Service Medal
Good Conduct Medal
Living conditions
We slept in tents (12 men tent), bathed in streams and ate in mess hall.
Most vivid memory of military experience
On the last day before leaving Korea to go home to Hawaii, two North Koreans came up to me and surrendered.
Most important thing, personally, to come from military experience?
I went to meat cutting school on the G.I. Bill
Additional information
My husband has a stroke and cannot say everything he would like to say.