Japanese American Military Experience Database

Shigeru Iba

Gender

Male

Birth date

1917-4-1

Place of birth

Los Angeles CA, U.S.A.

Inducted

1941-6-5, Ft. McArthur CA

Enlistment type

Volunteer

Service branch

Army

Service type

War

Unit type

Combat

Units served

MISLS (Graduated Savage, Dec. 1942)
I Corp 41st Division (Army) in Australia and New Guinea (Biak and Hollandia)

Military specialty

Military Intelligence Service (MIS) G-2, Translator and Interrogator

Stationed

Camp Roberts, Fort Lewis, WA; Ft. Bliss, TX; Camp Savage, MN;

Separated

Camp Beale, Sacramento CA

Unit responsibility

To find out military information through interrogation and translation.

Personal responsibility

Picking up prisoners and interrogating them.

Major battles (if served in a war zone)

Biak and Hollandia (New Guinea) Campaign where I got the jungle rot (skin disease) and was hospitalized for one year.

Living conditions

We slept on cots in tents in the jungles of New Guinea and Australia.

Missed most whilst in the military

I missed the movies and entertainments.