Gender

Male

Birth date

1924-3-7

Place of birth

Terminal Island CA, U.S.A.

Inducted

1945-2-27, New Orleans LA

Enlistment type

Volunteer

Service branch

Army

Service type

Peacetime

Unit type

Support

Units served

A Company, 14th Infantry Regiment.

Military specialty

Infantry Unit Commander 1542

Stationed

Germany

Separated

Fort Dix NJ

Awards, medals, citations (individual or unit)

World War II Medal, Army of Occupation Medal, European African Middle Eastern Campaign Medal

Most vivid memory of military experience

My father would share only a few stories of his military experience. (1) While in Germany, he had a woman make a shirt for him out of material from a parachute. Rather than accept payment, she wanted lard. When Seiji brought her a gallon of lard which he had bartered for from the mess hall staff, the woman and her family scooped spoonfuls of the lard directly into their mouths. (2) Seiji had been raised on a Japanese diet of seafood, vegetables and rice in Terminal Island. Less than a week after eating