Sexo

Male

Fecha de Nacimiento

1929-7-15

Lugar de Nacimiento

Berkeley CA, U.S.A.

Inducted

1951-5-15, Camp Kilmer NJ

Tipo de Alistamiento

Draftee

Afiliación Militar

Army

Tipo de servicio prestado

War

Tipo de unidad militar

Support

Unidades a las que sirvió

3rd Armored Medical Company, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regimental Combat Team in Nurenberg, Germany. 1951 - 1953

Especialidad militar

Radio Operator in the 3rd Armored Medical Company, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regimental Combat Team.

Asignado

Fort Dix, NJ; Merrell Barracks, Nurenberg, West Germany

Retirado

Camp Kilmer NJ

Responsabilidad en la unidad

To transport the wounded from the frontlines back to the Field Hospital. We were an ambulance company, I was their radio operator.

Responsabilidad individual

Communications: Radio and telephones.

Batallas principales (si sirvió en una zona de guerra)

I was not in a war zone. My unit was an Occupation Force until June 1952, then became a Defense Force.

Condiciones de Vida

Was living in a large stone and brick building (walls were a foot thick). Had showers, mess halls and great meals. Nurenberg is a big city with all kinds of entertainment. Restaurants, movie theaters, night clubs, museums, soccer games, hockey games, etc.

Recuerdo más vívido de la experiencia militar

At the time I could not understand why the Germans were speaking German to their dogs and cats. And the fact that they were warming their beer instead of cooling it like we do.

Lo que más extraño durante su tiempo en las fuerzas armadas

Next to my family and friends, I missed Japanese food the most. The cooks at the mess hall could not cook it the way I like it. I met a Nisei cook from another outfit who would invite me to have some rice. I took furloughs to Amsterdam, Netherland; and ate Chinese food 3 times a day, which was an adventure because the menus were either written in Chinese or Netherlandic, so I would just go down the list and try it all.

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

How much I missed them and the fact that we should not take our freedom for granted. The German people in 1952-3 still were not used to their freedom even though they were living in the US Zone. We would talk to them about Adolf Hitler, how he was a killer etc... They would look around and say, ' No, no, don't say that.', and run away from us.