Sexo

Male

Fecha de Nacimiento

1917-3-25

Lugar de Nacimiento

Del Rey CA, U.S.A.

Inducted

1941-6-1, Ft. Ord CA

Tipo de Alistamiento

Draftee

Afiliación Militar

Army

Tipo de servicio prestado

War

Unidades a las que sirvió

MISLS Sec 22 (Graduated Savage, July 1943)
5th Radio Mobile Squadron--attached to 10th Air Force for Burma War
5th Radio Mobile Squadron--attached to 14th Air Force in China War--Chennult's Flying Tiger

Especialidad militar

Military Intelligence Service;
Language Specialist

Asignado

USA: Ft. Ord, CA; Camp Walter, TX; Camp Savage, MN; Mc Dille Field, FL
Other Countries: Chabua India (Assam) (10th Air Force Hq); Kunming, China, 14th Air Force Hq & Central China Liangshan

Retirado

Camp Beale CA

Responsabilidad en la unidad

To gather Japanese voice conversations from airplane to airplane and airplane to ground communications. We, also received coded Japanese kana and numbers. After graduating Camp Savage, few of us were sent to Signal Corp School in Tampa, FL to learn morse code and the kana alphabet code. We just received the coded messages on typewriters.

Responsabilidad individual

To foresee all the intelligent information gathered and sent to the Hdq. daily and monthly.

Batallas principales (si sirvió en una zona de guerra)

Burma War and China War

Reconocimientos, medallas, menciones (individuales o de la unidad)

The 5th Radio Mobile Squadron Unit (Military Intelligence Unit) received the meritorious award citation. We were members of this unit. Our unit was composed of Caucasians and few Niseis which helped shorten the air war in Burma and China.

Condiciones de Vida

During the Burma War, we lived or slept in small huts (2 persons to a hut) made of bamboo. It rained a lot, 600 inches a year.
Only meat we had was spam, day in and day out.
Since it was such a remote area, no entertainer ever came. We played cards, read books and had beer.
We bathed in cold water showers.
In China, we slept in buildings and had hot and cold water showers.

Recuerdo más vívido de la experiencia militar

Going overseas, we flew out of Florida in a 4 engine cargo plane. We refueled in Bermuda, Azores, Casa Blanca, Africa, Tripoli, Cairo, Egypt, Arab country and Karachi, India, Calcuta, India, Assam India. We got to see the world. We took awhile getting to our destination because we caught any available plane we could get. Some had time visiting the Casa Blanca pyramids in Cairo; grape fields in Karachi, India; Ganges River in Calcutta, India; tea plantation in Assam.

Lo que más extraño durante su tiempo en las fuerzas armadas

Overseas, one begins to realize how clean the USA is. Over there, one smells the sewage all day long. I longed to see the Sierra Nevada Mts. and the valley.

¿En lo personal, qué obtuvo de su experiencia militar?

War is hell. That is why we are reluctant to talk about the war.

Información adicional

Residence: Del Ray, CA