日系アメリカ人兵役体験記録データベース
Mitsuo "Mits" Kodama
性別
Male
生年月日
1919-01-05
出生地
Mountain View CA, USA
入隊した年
1944-06-02, Ft. Sheridan IL
入隊のタイプ
Draftee
所属・部署
Army
兵役のタイプ
War,peacetime
所属部隊のタイプ
Combat
所属部隊
Training - 64th Regiment, 208th Battalion, A-Company.; Overseas - 442nd Regimental Combat Team, 2nd Battalion, F-Company
特殊技能
Battalion to company runner during combat. Mail clerk and company clerk after combat.
最終目標
USA: Camp Blanding, FL
Other Countries: Southern France; Italy
Other Countries: Southern France; Italy
除隊した年
Ft. Sheridan IL
所属部隊の役割
Southern France - guard Maginot Line, spearhead a diversionary attack on the Western sector of the Gothic line in Italy.
所属部隊での個人的役割
Bring food and ammunition from battalion to company and bring back the morning report from company to battalion.
主な戦闘（交戦地帯へ従軍した場合）
North Appennines, Po Valley Campaigns
勲章・褒章（個人又は所属部隊）
Presidential Unit Citation - for breaking the Gothic Line in Italy
Presidential Unit Citation - by President Truman for the general fighting in Europe
Congressional Gold Medal
Presidential Unit Citation - by President Truman for the general fighting in Europe
Congressional Gold Medal
生活状況
Fighting in the Appennines, we slept in fox-holes dug sidewise into the mountains, in barns filled with manure to keep warm by laying our ground cloth on top of the manure and sprinkling it with DDT powder to keep from getting bitten by bugs.
We didn't bathe until we got a break and rested for couple of days after a week of fighting. Our unit engineers provided us cold water from the river. We had to change into new clothing even if it didn't fit.
We were issued K-rations during combat but we ate hot meals during our break, even though we were shelled very heavily by the enemy. Many times we exchanged our cigarettes for eggs and cooked it in our mess kit with our K-rations.
Not much entertainment to be had except when we pulled back for rest. We got to see Frank Sinatra from the front row seats when he was in Rome. Also passes were issued to go to Switzerland or Rome.
We didn't bathe until we got a break and rested for couple of days after a week of fighting. Our unit engineers provided us cold water from the river. We had to change into new clothing even if it didn't fit.
We were issued K-rations during combat but we ate hot meals during our break, even though we were shelled very heavily by the enemy. Many times we exchanged our cigarettes for eggs and cooked it in our mess kit with our K-rations.
Not much entertainment to be had except when we pulled back for rest. We got to see Frank Sinatra from the front row seats when he was in Rome. Also passes were issued to go to Switzerland or Rome.
軍隊生活で最も記憶に残っている出来事
I think the most shocking thing that stuck in my mind was seeing fifteen year old soldiers crying for their mother when they were wounded and captured.
軍隊にいる間、最も懐かしかったもの
Being with my wife because I had just gotten married before going overseas.
個人的に軍隊経験から学んだ最も重要なこと
That life is too short and precious to be fighting such a frivolous thing as a war when there are so much that man could be doing for mankind.
その他の情報
Received the Congressional Gold Medal.
