Sexo

Male

Fecha de Nacimiento

1919-9-20

Lugar de Nacimiento

Oakland CA, U.S.A.

Inducted

1942-11-19, Twin Falls ID

Tipo de Alistamiento

Volunteer

Afiliación Militar

Army

Tipo de servicio prestado

War

Tipo de unidad militar

Combat

Unidades a las que sirvió

Naval G-2 Hqs Adm Halsey - 103rd Inf. Regt. ; 43rd Inf. Div.; 379th Inf. Regt. ; 79th Inf. Div.

Especialidad militar

Interpreter Combat Infantry

Asignado

Camp Savage, Ft. Snelling, Camp Shelby; New Caledonia; New Zealand; New Guinea; Phillipine (Luzon); Biak, and Japan (Gunma-ken).

Retirado

Fort Logan CO

Responsabilidad en la unidad

Combat

Responsabilidad individual

Regimental Interpreter

Batallas principales (si sirvió en una zona de guerra)

New Guinea and Luzon, P.I.

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

American Service Medal - Asiatic Pacific Service Medal - Philippine Liberation Ribbon with L Bronze Service Star - World War II Victory Medal - Good Conduct Medal - Bronze Star Medal - Bronze Service Arrowhead - and Combat Infantry Badge

Recuerdo más vívido de la experiencia militar

It could be humorous but our outfit, the 103rd Inf. Reg, landed at Aitape during the new Guinea campaign in time for the evening meal. The area was secured by the 32nd Inf. Div. and we were fed by them. Around midnight, I developed the 'G.I. Runs' - so I left our tent and headed for the latrine dressed only in my shorts. Near the latrine, I was challenged by a guard with his rifle pointing at me asking for the password. I tried to explain to the guard that I had landed with my outfit just a few hours earlier and we weren't given the password, for the night. He appeared to be just as scared as I was for I knew he was looking down on a J__ in a combat area. Since it didn't seem to me that I wasn't making much headway with him, I started to cuss him up and down with every four, five or six letter words I knew at that time. I told him that I was going to drop my S___ right in front of him and I was going to make sure that our General was going to make you (the guard) clean it up later. Then he lowered his rifle and let me proceed. Yes, I was sweating. P.S. I didn't get a chance to thank the guard the next morning.

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

I volunteered for the U.S. Army from a concentration camp in order to serve the country of my birth.

Información adicional

Post war - thanks to the G.I. Bill I continued and finished my interrupted education at the Univ. of California as an optometrist, now retired.