Gender

Male

Birth date

1927-2-4

Place of birth

Waihee, Maui HI, U.S.A.

Inducted

1946-7-7, Honolulu/Maui HI

Enlistment type

Draftee

Service branch

Other

Service type

War,peacetime

Unit type

Support

Units served

Weather Station/Christmas Island

Military specialty

Cook(060)

Stationed

Hawaii/Christmas Island(Garrison Force)

Unit responsibility

Weather /Station, Buyilding Roads, etc.

Personal responsibility

Cood/Baker/Labor

Awards, medals, citations (individual or unit)

Victory Medal (Did not receive)

Living conditions

Screened huts - bathe in half salt half fresh water, using hard water soap. Mostly dehydrated food - Went fishing for play and for food for the troops.

Most vivid memory of military experience

Learned how to bake and cook and bust my ass fixing roads.

Missed most whilst in the military

My freedom.

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

Served honorably although was denied my Bhuddist religion.

Additional information

(1) Was able to survive with minimum support (Caught our own fish, etc.) (2) I fed more generals and admirals fried chicken Assholes when they came to Chrisrmas Island for a fishing expedition. (That's all I had; I fed the good stuff to the troops.)