Banco de Dados da Experiência Militar Nipo-Americana
Monte T. Matsuda
Sexo
Male
Birth date
1914-8-10
Local de nascimento
Rindge Tract. Stockton CA, U.S.A.
Inducted
1943-1-23, Presidio CA
Tipo de alistamento
Draftee
Ramo das Forças Armadas
Army
Tipo de serviço
War
Tipo de Unidade
Combat
Unidades onde serviu
442nd regiment, 2nd battalion, Company F
Stationed
France, Italy.
Separated
Ft. Sheridan IL
Major battles (if served in a war zone)
Whatever 442nd Regimental (Combat Team) participated.
Awards, medals, citations (individual or unit)
2 Presidential Unit Citations; 442nd Combat Unit;Purplr Heart and (Oak leaf) cluster.
Living conditions
Poor. In fox holes whenever we pulled back. K-rations and on occasion, hot meals. Get together for gab-fests.
Most vivid memory of military experience
(Seeing) mutilated bodies, (and realizing that) the enemy is human too, (and) seeing a German boy 10-12 years old on the front line, crying with a loaf of bread in his hands.
Missed most whilst in the military
Home.
Most important thing, personally, to come from military experience?
To come home safely, and (seeing that)wars are terrible and only grief the result.
