Sexo

Male

Birth date

1917-02-14

Local de nascimento

San Francisco CA, USA

Inducted

1942-12-01, Fort Snelling MN

Tipo de alistamento

Volunteer

Ramo das Forças Armadas

Army

Tipo de serviço

War

Tipo de Unidade

Support

Unidades onde serviu

MISLS (Graduated Savage, Dec. 1942) MISLS Instructor ATIS, G-2, GHQ Tokyo Civil Intelligence Section, GHQ Tokyo

Military specialty

Military Intelligence Intelligence Analyst

Stationed

USA: Camp Savage, MN; Ft. Snelling, MN; Presidio, Monterey, CA Other Countries: Tokyo, Japan

Separated

Tokyo JP

Unit responsibility

MISLS - Teaching Japanese Language Civil Intelligence Section GHQ, Tokyo - Intelligence Collection and Analysis

Personal responsibility

MISLS - Student Instructor Administrative Assistant to Dir. Academic Training GHQ, Tokyo Chief, Compilations Branch, Civil Intelligence Section, GHQ, Tokyo

Living conditions

MISLS - Camp Savage as a student, lived in temporary barracks with separate building for showers and latrines. Ate regular army food in mess hall. MISLS - As an instructor, lived in Minneapolis sharing house with two other couples. In Monterey - lived with family in a house on the post. In Tokyo - lived with family in housing built for dependents.

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

Learned a lot about my cultural heritage during occupation duties in Japan. Made many friends both among occupation personnel and Japanese government people.

Additional information

Residence: Medford Leas, NJ. Interned at Topaz camp in Utah. Enjoyed a long career at Mikasa, in New York.