Gender

Male

Birth date

1917-12-31

Place of birth

Santa Fe Springs CA, U.S.A.

Enlistment type

Volunteer

Service branch

Army

Service type

War

Unit type

Support

Units served

MISLS (Graduated Savage, July 1943)
Military Intelligence
China-Burma-India Theater; India, Burma, British 36th Division;
Maizuru, Japan

Military specialty

Military Intelligence
Language Specialist

Stationed

USA: Camp Savage, MN
Other Countries: India; Burma; Maizuru, Japan

Separated

Camp Grant IL

Unit responsibility

Translate captured Japanese documents, interrogate captured POW's.

Personal responsibility

Same as unit's plus served as editor at SEATIS (SE Asia Translation and Interpretoe's Corp), New Delhi, India

Major battles (if served in a war zone)

Burma Campaign

Awards, medals, citations (individual or unit)

Recommended for British Citation for work in Battle of Myitson Crossing (Central Burma).
British Medal

Living conditions

Jungle, Monsoon weather. Slept on ground or in hammocks in field but mostly in tents. Bathed with wet towels. No entertainment in field.

Most vivid memory of military experience

Helped train K-9's (war dogs) using POW's in Assam. (They were volunteers originally part of group captured by Sgt Kenny Yasui in Burma.) Interrogation of recalcitrant POW's held in Burma, India and of Zero pilot shot down in Burma.

Missed most whilst in the military

Family and friends.

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

In retrospect, having been a part of the greatest experience in my life and surviving 2 1/2 years overseas. But returning fully cognizant of the greater and awesome sacrifices made by our brothers in the 100th and 442nd.