Gender

Male

Birth date

1927-12-12

Place of birth

Terminal Island CA, U.S.A.

Inducted

1946-7-12, Ft. Snelling MN

Enlistment type

Volunteer

Service branch

Army

Service type

Peacetime

Unit type

Support

Units served

1st tour 7/1946-6/1948: 2nd Bn. Hq., 32nd Inf. Reg., 7th Div. and 317th Hq Intel. Det., 7th Div.

2nd tour 8/1950-9/1951: 319th Mil. Intel. Co. attached to 441st CIC Det. Tokyo, Japan.

Military specialty

1320 Chief Interpreter, Japanese

Stationed

1st tour: Fort Knox, KY; Korea; separation at Fort Lawton, WA.

2nd tour: Inducted at Fort Ord, CA; Japan; separation at Camp Stoneman, CA.

Separated

Camp Stoneman CA

Unit responsibility

Interrogate North Koreans coming South across 38th parallel.

Second tour operated a photo lab.

Personal responsibility

Gather intelligence information on North Korea and ferret out North Korean informants.

Awards, medals, citations (individual or unit)

World War II Victory Medal; Army of Occupation Medal - Japan.

Second tour, Korean Service Medal.

Living conditions

Quonset huts - showers - meals boring - entertainments - none.

Second tour, all modern conditions - all of Tokyo available for entertainment.

Most vivid memory of military experience

I interpreted for a General investigating the shooting of a Russian Lt. and a Sergeant by the South Korean Police on the 38th parallel.

Second tour: A top secret courier from GHQ came with a request for 69 copies of a photograph. The photo turned out to be a girl with her tit caught in an old fashioned wringer.

Missed most whilst in the military

Fresh vegetables and milk.

Second tour, my wife.

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

There are many that live in very primitive conditions and are never exposed to many things we take for granted in the U.S.A. Enjoyed tour of Japan, but there are many cultural differences between American-Japanese and Japanese.

Additional information

Was part of the 441st CIC Det. swim team that won first place in the Far East Command Meet.