Sexo

Male

Fecha de Nacimiento

1918-03-18

Lugar de Nacimiento

Los Angeles CA, USA

Inducted

1941-04-08, Los Angeles CA

Tipo de Alistamiento

Draftee

Afiliación Militar

Army

Tipo de servicio prestado

War

Tipo de unidad militar

Combat

Unidades a las que sirvió

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

Especialidad militar

Supply

Asignado

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

Retirado

Canterbury IN

Responsabilidad en la unidad

Artillery Support

Responsabilidad individual

Supply

Batallas principales (si sirvió en una zona de guerra)

Rome-Arno
Rhineland
Central Europe

Reconocimientos, medallas, menciones (individuales o de la unidad)

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

Recuerdo más vívido de la experiencia militar

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.

Lo que más extraño durante su tiempo en las fuerzas armadas

Japanese Food

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

Met many new friends

Información adicional

Residence: Los Angeles, CA.