Gender

Male

Birth date

1916-12-30

Place of birth

Beaverhill OR, U.S.A.

Inducted

1945-4-1, Salt Lake City UT

Enlistment type

Draftee

Service branch

Army

Service type

War

Unit type

Support

Units served

MISLS D-11(Graduated Snelling, Sept. 1945)
ATIS and General Accounting - GHQ, Tokyo

Military specialty

Originally Military Intelligence Service, but transferred to General Accounting Section GHQ, Tokyo, Japan

Stationed

USA: Ft. Snelling, MN
Other Countries: Tokyo, Japan; Korea

Separated

Tokyo, Japan

Unit responsibility

Accounting for captured war material

Personal responsibility

Accountant

Living conditions

Lived after basic training in Tokyo, Japan. Lived in rooms in apartment-like buildings. Had community showers and traveled around Japan and Korea. Since the war was over by the time I finished Basic, we really enjoyed Army life.

Most vivid memory of military experience

I was sent to Fort Snelling to increase my knowledge of Japanese. After 1 month was sent to Japan as an interpreter; but was unable to read many characters.

Missed most whilst in the military

I missed my family and friends, but made up partially by making new ones.

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

To be able to get along and understand strangers.