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Japanese American Military Experience Database

Henry I. Akiyama, Dr.

Gender
Male
Birth date
1927-04-18
Place of birth
Hood River OR, USA
Inducted
1945,
Enlistment type
Volunteer
Service branch
Army
Service type
War,peacetime
Unit type
Support
Units served
442nd Regimental Combat Team Served with occupational forces in Italy.
Military specialty
Infantryman
Unit responsibility
Infantry
Personal responsibility
Infantryman
Additional information
Residence: Juneau, AK. Interned at Pinedale, Tule Lake, CA. and Minidoka, ID. Graduated from University of Oregon Medical School, in 1957. He served his internship and residency at St. Vincent's Hospital in Portland, OR. He moved to Juneau in 1961. He was a cardiologist and helped establish coronary care units in both St. Vincent's Hospital in Portland and Bartlett Hospital in Juneau. He retired from medical practice on Oct. 15, 2004 after 43 years.
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