Gender

Male

Birth date

1918-3-3

Place of birth

Fairfield CA, U.S.A.

Inducted

1942-11-30, Ft. Snelling MN

Enlistment type

Volunteer

Service branch

Army

Service type

War,peacetime

Unit type

Support

Units served

MISLS Sec 18 (Graduated Savage, Dec. 1942)
Allied translator/interpreter Service (ATIS)
441st Counterintelligence Corps
U.S. Army Intelligence School.

Military specialty

Military Intelligence, both positive and counter intelligence

Stationed

USA: 11/1942-6/1943: Camp Savage, MN Army Language School studying Japanese

Other Countries: 1/1944-6/1945: ATIS Australia - Interrogation of POW's and monitoring interrogation by others.

7/1945-9/1945: Philippines - Interrogations. Commissioned 2nd Lt.

10/1945-1950: Occupation of Japan, Various liaison activities. CIC activities from 1947-1950

6/1950-7/1951: Korean War. CIC Unit from Taegu, Seoul, Pyongyang and back to Seoul.

7/1951-10/1952: Tokyo. CIC duties as Operations Officer

10/1952-9/1953: CIC Unit, Chicago, IL. Officer-in-Charge of Chicago Loop Office

9/1953-5/1954:US Army Intelligence School, Ft. Holabird, MD. Attended advanced officer's course.

5/1954-5/1956: Army Intelligence School faculty as instructor

7/1956-12/1959: Okinawa. 526th INTC Detachment

2/1960-12/1963: Intelligence School Faculty, Ft. Holabird, MD

12/1963 retired from US Army after 21 yrs active duty

USA - Ft. Holabird, MD; Ft. Meade, MD; Chicago, IL; Australia, Philippines, Japan, Vietnam, Okinawa, Korea, Germany

Separated

Ft. Holabird MD

Unit responsibility

Various intelligence activities including positive and counterintelligence.

Personal responsibility

Interrogation of Japanese POWs; liaison with Govt Officials in Japan, Korea, Okinawa, Philippines; Operations Officer; Commander

Major battles (if served in a war zone)

Was in Pacific Theater War Zone but not in any specific battle/battles.
Was stationed in the Philippine Islands but performed rear echelon activities such as interogations of POWs.

Awards, medals, citations (individual or unit)

During WW II received the usual theater ribbons - nothing unusual. During Korean War received Bronze Star Medal.

Living conditions

I was fortunate in not having to sleep in a fox-hole. Mine was mostly barracks style living - similar to our living conditions in our relocation (concentration) camps. What entertainment we had was through films, occasional USO shows.

Most vivid memory of military experience

In Sept, 1945, about 60 of us Niseis were given 2nd Lt. commissions in Manila, P.I.and we were ordered to draw field equipment to prepare ourselves for the invsion of Japan. We were formed into teams and were to be assigned to landing units. We were preparing to fly to Okinawa to join the invasion fleets there when the 'A' bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki resulting in the unconditional surrender of Japan and so instead of making combat landings with great loss of American lives as well as Japanese lives, we quietly sailed into Yokohama with no opposition from Japanese Forces. I believe many of us wouldn't be here today had we had to make those combat landings.

Additional information

12/1963-12/1983: Civil Service. US Army Intelligence. Stationed in US, Tokyo, Germany (1979-1983) and Vietnam.