Japanese American Military Experience Database

Mark Y. "Mack" Kiguchi

Gender

Male

Birth date

1922-4-25

Place of birth

WY, U.S.A.

Inducted

1945-5-1, Chicago IL

Enlistment type

Draftee

Service branch

Army

Service type

Peacetime

Unit type

Support

Units served

MISLS D-3 (Graduated Snelling, Sept. 1945)
Military Intelligence Service, Tokyo, Japan

Military specialty

Military Intelligence
Translator

Stationed

USA: Ft. Snelling, MN
Other Countries: Tokyo, Japan

Separated

Camp Beale CA

Unit responsibility

To translate Japanese documents on Korean topography into English.

Personal responsibility

Same as unit's responsibility.

Awards, medals, citations (individual or unit)

World War II Victory Medal
Army of Occupation Medal

Living conditions

Conditions were good since my entire military life was spent in U.S. Army installations.

Most vivid memory of military experience

Seeing the devastation Tokyo suffered from the fire bombs.

Missed most whilst in the military

Freedom to do whatever I wanted whenever I wanted to do it.

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

The horrors of war even though I was never involved in any of the fighting.