Gender

Male

Birth date

1922-8-29

Place of birth

Seattle WA, U.S.A.

Inducted

1942-11-19, Twin Falls (Minidoka) ID

Enlistment type

Volunteer

Service branch

Army

Service type

War,peacetime

Unit type

Combat

Units served

MISLS Sec 17 (Graduated Savage, Dec. 1942)
161st Regiment, 25th Division.
Temporary duty with US Navy Intelligence

Military specialty

Military Intelligence
Linguist

Stationed

USA: Camp Savage, MN; Camp Shelby, MS; Ft. Snelling, MN;
Other Countries: New Caledonia; Solomon Islands; Philippine Islands; Japan.

Separated

Camp McCoy WI

Unit responsibility

Combat Infantry
Military intelligence

Personal responsibility

Linguist/Infrantryman

Major battles (if served in a war zone)

Northern Solomons; Luzon, Philippine Islands

Awards, medals, citations (individual or unit)

Purple Heart(wounded in action)
Good Conduct Medal
Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster (Luzon Campaign)
Philippine Liberation Ribbon
American Theater Service Medal
Asiatic-Pacific Theater Service Medal
Army Commendation Medal (Postwar duty in Japan)

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

In a letter written to a fellow WW II Army linguist (non-Japanese), just after the 50th anniversary of the MIS/DLI, and prior to his death, our father made the following comment: 'Time has proven that the path chosen by our parents (Issei) and our Nisei contemporarys was absolutely correct. I feel most comfortable about the way things turned out.'