性別

Male

生年月日

1929-7-15

出生地

Berkeley CA, U.S.A.

入隊した年

1951-5-15, Camp Kilmer NJ

入隊のタイプ

Draftee

所属・部署

Army

兵役のタイプ

War

所属部隊のタイプ

Support

所属部隊

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

特殊技能

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

最終目標

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

除隊した年

Camp Kilmer NJ

所属部隊の役割

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

所属部隊での個人的役割

Communications: Radio and telephones.

主な戦闘（交戦地帯へ従軍した場合）

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

生活状況

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.

軍隊生活で最も記憶に残っている出来事

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.

軍隊にいる間、最も懐かしかったもの

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.

個人的に軍隊経験から学んだ最も重要なこと

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.