Gender

Male

Birth date

1920-02-04

Place of birth

Seattle WA, USA

Inducted

1941-12-01, Seattle WA

Enlistment type

Volunteer

Service branch

Army

Service type

War

Unit type

Combat

Units served

442nd Regimental Combat Team, Company K

Military specialty

Infantryman

Unit responsibility

Infantry

Personal responsibility

Infantryman

Major battles (if served in a war zone)

Italy and France Rescue of the "Lost Battalion"

Awards, medals, citations (individual or unit)

Silver Star

Additional information

Residences: Ellsworth, ME, Sturgis, SD and Sebastopol, CA. Graduated University of Washington before WW II. and joined the US Army. After the war he attended University of Chicago School of Medicine, graduated with honors in 1950. After internship and a surgical residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital and a stop in Syracuse as the Assistant Chief of Surgery and Instructor of Surgery, he landed a position in 1956 at the Maine Coast Memorial Hospital in Ellsworth, ME, where he was chief of surgery for many years. During this time, he gained the trust and respect opf those he served and his skill in "stitching" people back together was nearly legendary. "I'd let him cut my head off and sew it back on "said one lobsterman after showing how his reattached thumb could wiggle and flex "good as new." He retired in 1994 to Fort Meade near Sturgis, SD where he worked at the Veteran's Hospital until his second retirement in 2008. One of the first 442nd veterans to publicly come out in support of Nisei draft resisters, those men who refused to serve in the military until they and their families were released from US concentration camps during WW II. Also supported Lt. Ehren Watada. His support carried a lot of weight because he survived the rescue of the "Lost Battalion." He understood the necessity of the draft resisters in fighting for our rights in a court of law while the Nisei soldiers, like himself, fought in the court of public opinion.