性別

Male

生年月日

1919-12-21

出生地

Penngrove CA, U.S.A.

入隊した年

1941-12-6, Presidio of Monterey CA

入隊のタイプ

Volunteer

所属・部署

Army

兵役のタイプ

War

所属部隊のタイプ

Combat

所属部隊

12th Air Force; 97th Sq. - 47th Bomb Gp.

特殊技能

Airplane Armorer Gunner

最終目標

Monterey, CA; Biloxi, Miss.;Lowry Field, Denver, CO; Hill Field, Ogden, UT; England; North Africa; Italy; Corsica

除隊した年

Ft. Logan CO

所属部隊の役割

Bombing enemy personnel - Installations and supporting our own troops - mostly in Italy.

所属部隊での個人的役割

Aerial gunner on A-20 (attack bomber) and taking pictures of our bombing attacks.

主な戦闘（交戦地帯へ従軍した場合）

Naples, Foggia, Normandy

勲章・褒章（個人又は所属部隊）

Air Medal with 1 Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster (OLC); completed 50 combat missions; Good Conduct Medal; American Defense Service Medal; European Africa Middle Eastern Service Medal.

生活状況

Overseas - We slept in tents with wooden floors. Four men in each tent with a stove for heat. We fly-boys had clean cots with sleeping bags. We made our own shower stalls and got water from 50 gallon drums. Our food was the same as any outfit overseas. Only we were fed three times a day all year. For entertainment, we saw movies - several times a week - saw Martha Raye entertaining troops.

軍隊生活で最も記憶に残っている出来事

Being the only Nisei wherever I was stationed, I was always treated as one of the boys. Never was I called a 'Jap' during my entire Army stint. Never felt any prejudice during my time in Service (3 yrs 8 months). During my stay in Denver, CO around 2/42, I often went to a Japanese restaurant called 'Manchu Grill'. The first time I went there, I got the cold treatment. They thought I was Chinese because they didn't know any Nisei in the Air Corp. After that , I was treated royally. While stationed at the base of Mt. Vesuvius, from where I flew 33 missions, I saw Mt. Vesuvius erupt. We evacuated from there. But the planes that were stationed on the other side were damaged or lost. From there we went to Naples.

軍隊にいる間、最も懐かしかったもの

Rice and tsukemono

個人的に軍隊経験から学んだ最も重要なこと

Being in the Air Corp, I now realize what a clean life we led. I visited my cousin in Northern Italy and felt sorry for those guys as they slept in pup tents in all kinds of weather and died in the mud. My buddies who lost their lives went down so fast we never felt the pain seeing our comrades killed, not that I didn't care.

その他の情報

Being a gunner during the war - it was nothing I could use in civilian life. But during my time in the service - I traveled across the U.S. and went overseas on the Queen Mary. Got to see parts of Scotland, England, North Africa, Naples, Rome, Isle of Capri (R & R) and finally finished my missions on the Island of Corsica.