Sexo

Male

Birth date

1920-10-3

Local de nascimento

Sanger CA, U.S.A.

Inducted

1944-9-7, Cleveland OH

Tipo de alistamento

Draftee

Ramo das Forças Armadas

Army

Tipo de serviço

War

Tipo de Unidade

Support

Unidades onde serviu

7th Infantry Division HQ, Seoul, Korea, April 1946 - May 1948
Camp Croft, Spartansburg, SC, Basic Infantry Training, December 1944 - April 1945
MISLS F-3 (Graduated Snelling, July 1945), Fort Snelling, MN, Japanese Language Training, April 1945 - February 1946

Military specialty

Military Intelligence

Stationed

USA: Spartansburg, SC; Ft. Snelling, MN
Other Countries: Tokyo, Japan 2/1946 - 4/1946; Korea 4/1946 - 5/1948

Separated

Fort Lawton WA

Unit responsibility

Our unit was trained in POW interrogations and identification of enemy units

Personal responsibility

Commanded a small military intelligence unit attached to 7th Infantry Division.

Most important thing, personally, to come from military experience?

Concentrated very hard on becoming an officer. Opportunity developed when I was able to graduate 2nd highest among approximately 350 students from our 16 week training in Japanese language at Fort Snelling. Four of us from that class were sent to officer training class for 6 months to be commissioned in February 1946.

Additional information

Received Basic Infantry Training in Camp Croft, SC. This unit was sent in to Fort Meade, MD to go overseas into combat at the end of April 1945. Just the day before this unit was heading overseas, I was pulled out and sent to Fort Snelling, MN. This turned out to be a lucky transfer since this infantry trained unit ended up in Europe directly in the heavy fighting at the Belgium Bulge.