Gender

Female

Birth date

1918-9-3

Place of birth

Spokane WA, U.S.A.

Inducted

1945-1-16, Denver CO

Enlistment type

Volunteer

Service branch

Army

Service type

War

Unit type

Support

Units served

Tilton General Hospital, Ft. Dix, NJ

Military specialty

Medical Laboratory Tech 858

Stationed

USA:
Lawson General Hospital, Atlanta, GA
Tilton General Hospital, Ft. Dix, NJ

Separated

Ft. Sheridan IL

Unit responsibility

Lab work

Personal responsibility

Laboratory Technician

Awards, medals, citations (individual or unit)

Victory Medal
American Theater Ribbon
Good Conduct Medal
Meritorious Unit Award

Living conditions

We lived in standard barracks on cots.
Meals were ample and generally good.
Bathed in community showers and (used) community toilets.
Movies were our main entertainment. We had a recreation room for reading and ping pong. Spent some time at the PX window shopping.

Most vivid memory of military experience

I was in full uniform at a counter in Philadelphia , PA and the server asked me how I liked the U.S.!

Missed most whilst in the military

Privacy

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

I was able to get my B.A. Degree on the G.I. Bill. While in the service, I met the man I married - Edward F. Cleary (who was in Tilton General Hospital also as a G.I. Lab Technician.) and we had 2 wonderful sons. Now I have 2 wonderful grandsons and a special lovely daughter-in-law, Julie Nishiyama Cleary, and her parents became special friends after my husband died in 1988.

Additional information

My father was Rev. Seijiro Uemura, pastor and minister at Spokane, WA, Portland, OR and Denver, CO. My mother was Hana Morishita Uemura. They had 8 children - Lillian Terasaki, me, Frances Yanase, Ethel Yanase, Grace Uemura, Dr. Joseph Norio Uemura, Elizabeth Imazumi and Kiyo Hanna Sato. I am a graduate of Colorado Women's College '38, AA; Colorado State at Greeley ('40 - '41) and after service received my BA at University of Denver under the GI Bill in 1947.