Sexo

Male

Fecha de Nacimiento

1927-8-9

Lugar de Nacimiento

Waianae HI, U.S.A.

Inducted

1946-3-1, Schofield Barracks HI

Tipo de Alistamiento

Volunteer

Afiliación Militar

Army

Tipo de servicio prestado

Peacetime

Tipo de unidad militar

Support

Unidades a las que sirvió

MIS-CIC

Especialidad militar

Military Intelligence
Interpreter

Asignado

USA: Ft. Snelling, MN;Prresidio of Monterey, CA
Other Countries: Beppu, Kanazawa, Nanao, Japan

Retirado

Ft. Shafter HI

Responsabilidad en la unidad

Military intelligence.

Responsabilidad individual

House Manager
Interpreter
Courier
Keep my mind occupied.
Not to think about home.
To get along with all the officers I worked with.

Condiciones de Vida

Beppu:
Lived in a modern house with onsen bath.
Food more than adequate with a military base nearby.
Probably the only unit with a yacht anchored in bay.
Learned to golf.

Kanazawa:
Spent harsh winter in a Christian kindergarten school. No central heating. Maid came early morning to put on electric heater in our room.

Recuerdo más vívido de la experiencia militar

My First Job:
The Chief of Police in Kokura invited our unit to a boat-ride/social. Sitting between our Major and the Chief of Police, I leaned over to the Chief to inform him that I was ''new'' at this job, so would he please speak in simple (kantan) Japanese. Our conversation went on smoothly. Ad-libbed a lot.

Lo que más extraño durante su tiempo en las fuerzas armadas

News of the world. In Japan we were insulated. Hardly listened to radio or read newspaper.

¿En lo personal, qué obtuvo de su experiencia militar?

To live and work among the Japanese people. Learn their culture, language/dialect.

For my family, a visit to Japan. Have closer ties with our relatives in Ehime-ken

Información adicional

Being of Japanese ancestry, my dream was to visit Japan. As a 20 year-old nisei, I had countless opportunities to enrich myself, most illegally. Before I did anything rash, I remembered my mother's advice: ''Help the people.''