Gender

Male

Birth date

1918-03-18

Place of birth

Los Angeles CA, USA

Inducted

1941-04-08, Los Angeles CA

Enlistment type

Draftee

Service branch

Army

Service type

War

Unit type

Combat

Units served

442nd Regimental Combat Team, Battery A 522nd Field Artillery Battalion

Military specialty

Supply

Stationed

USA:Ft. Ord, Monterey, CA.; Camp Walters, TX; Camp Shelby, MS
Other Countries: Italy; France; Germany

Separated

Canterbury IN

Unit responsibility

Artillery Support

Personal responsibility

Supply

Major battles (if served in a war zone)

Rome-Arno
Rhineland
Central Europe

Awards, medals, citations (individual or unit)

EAME Theater Ribbon with 3 Bronze Stars per WD GO #33/45
American Defense Service Medal
Good Conduct Ribbon

Most vivid memory of military experience

When I was in Germany, we came across a political prisoner liberated out of Dachau - he was just skin and bone. The former 'POW' was fluent in many different languages so we kept him as our interpreter. After we had orders to go home, he left us to look for his wife who was also a 'POW' in parts unknown. After finding his wife in Italy, they immigrated to America. After arriving in America, everyplace he went seeing a Japanese, he would enquire if they knew a Sgt. Mori (NY, Chicago, SF). Eventually he came to Orange County and went to work as a janitor in a shoe manufacturing plant - there he met Daisy Yamamoto, who worked at the same plant, and asked her if she knew a 'Sgt. Mori.' She told him she knew a 'Mori family' who lived in Orange County and they had a boy who was in the service. She gave him my phone #, so Mr. Morris placed a call. When he called, I was so shocked that he was able to find me in this large country. We kept in touch and he became a successful businessman in the war surplus business and his wife being an educated woman - she continued her education at Long Beach State. She received her degree in education and was an instructor at a Jr. College in San Bernardino. Unfortunately, I guess with all the harsh treatment he received in the prison camp, he died of a heart attack early in life. This showed me how small a world could be.

Missed most whilst in the military

Japanese Food

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

Met many new friends

Additional information

Residence: Los Angeles, CA.