Gender

Male

Birth date

1921-1-30

Place of birth

Idaho Falls ID, U.S.A.

Inducted

1943-5-27, Salt Lake City UT

Enlistment type

Volunteer

Service branch

Army

Service type

War

Unit type

Support

Units served

442nd Regimental Combat Team
MISLS D-13 (Graduated Fort Snelling, MN, Sept. 1945)
71st Signal Service Battalion, Tokyo, Japan
Photo Div SCAP

Military specialty

Still Photo Officer

Stationed

USA: Camp Shelby, MS; Fort Benning, GA; Fort McClellan, AL; Fort Snelling, MN;Fitzsimmons General Hospital, Denver, CO
Other Countries: Far East Command, Tokyo, Japan

Separated

Fitzsimmons GH, Denver CO

Unit responsibility

Training replacements for 442nd RCT
Taking newsreels and still photos for Far East Command GHQ

Personal responsibility

To assign newsreel photographers to cover GHQ requests, supervising the work of photographer personnel in making of still pictures, developing film, and finishing process. Review and criticize films before release.

Most vivid memory of military experience

When taking newsreel of Prime Minister Yoshida, I had to bring along a translator who happened to be a Jewish Officer from Brooklyn

Missed most whilst in the military

The men I trained with. Some of us were ordered to remain behind to train the replacements.

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

We knew that it was 'Go For Broke.' We had this chance to prove once and for all that we are 'Americans' and would prove it the hard way. My older and younger brothers are buried at the cemetary in St. Avoin, France.

Additional information

ASN 39915052