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Chidori Ogawa "Penny" Reynolds
| Sexo | Female |
|---|---|
| Birth date | 1912-5-28 |
| Local de nascimento | Honolulu HI, U.S.A. |
| Inducted | 1944-4-1, Minneapolis MN |
| Tipo de alistamento | Volunteer |
| Ramo das Forças Armadas | Wac |
| Tipo de serviço | War |
| Tipo de Unidade | Support |
| Unidades onde serviu | 13th Air Force Hdqtrs (McDill Air Base, FL); Strategic Air Command Hdqtrs (Colorado Springs, CO); Andrews AFB, MD |
| Military specialty | Base Librarian, Air Force Supply Clerk |
| Stationed | USA - McDill AFB, FL; SAC Hdq, (Colorado Springs), CO; Andrews AFB, MD |
| Separated | Andrews Air Force Base MD |
| Unit responsibility | Servicing personnel involved in training and maintenance of heavy bombers used in Europe during war. |
| Personal responsibility | Maintaining and servicing recreational library for military personnel on base. |
| Awards, medals, citations (individual or unit) | Good Conduct Medal; American Theater Medal; Victory Medal |
| Living conditions | All 3 bases had barracks for enlisted personnel w/ showers, messhalls where meals were served, service clubs for socializing, theaters where movies were shown every night, some had bowling alleys. Each had a chapel where Sunday services and choir practices were held. |
| Most vivid memory of military experience | Confusing military as well as civilian personnel regarding my nationality - Indian, Mexican, Chinese, Spanish? Anything but Japanese! |
| Missed most whilst in the military | My family in Hawaii, since there was no way to visit them during the war. |
| Most important thing, personally, to come from military experience? | The many Caucasians in service who became very close friends, even to this day. |
| Additional information | I was the first Nisei woman from Hawaii to enlist - later women were recruited in Hawaii. I enlisted about a year after leaving Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Jan. 1943, but it took more than 6 months for the FBI to clear me for military service. |
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