Japanese American Military Experience Database

Kan Tagami

Gender

Male

Birth date

1918-2-21

Place of birth

Selma CA, U.S.A.

Inducted

, Ft. MacArthur, Los Angele CA

Enlistment type

Draftee

Service branch

Army

Service type

War,peacetime

Unit type

Combat,sup

Units served

MISLS A-1 (Graduated Savage, June 1942)
7th Infantry Division
Military Intelligence
Mars Task Force, China-Burma-India Theater

Military specialty

Military Intelligence
Infantryman
Interrogator, Translator (Japanese)

Stationed

USA: Ft. Ord, CA; Ft. Snelling, MN
Other Countries: Burma; Tokyo, Japan

Separated

Tokyo JP

Unit responsibility

Combat and occupation of Burma and India

Personal responsibility

Infantry and intelligence

Major battles (if served in a war zone)

North and South Burma campaigns

Awards, medals, citations (individual or unit)

Combat Infantryman Badge
Bronze Star (North Burma)
Bronze Star (Korean War)

Living conditions

March all day and sleep in the open. No entertainment

Most vivid memory of military experience

Charging up hills and hand-to-hand combat
Interrogating prisoners.

Missed most whilst in the military

Family in California.

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

We were tools of the military. Enemy were humans like any of us.