Gender

Male

Birth date

1923-3-7

Place of birth

Pasadena CA, U.S.A.

Inducted

1944-7-31, Fort Leavenworth KS

Enlistment type

Draftee

Service branch

Army

Service type

War

Unit type

Combat

Units served

I Company, 442nd Reg't Combat Team

Military specialty

Automatic rifleman (746)

Stationed

Italy

Separated

Marysville CA

Unit responsibility

Combat

Personal responsibility

Rifleman (automatic) 746

Awards, medals, citations (individual or unit)

Unit citations are those for I Company, 442nd Reg't Combat Team

Living conditions

Slept on the ground when in Pup tents, on beds when in barracks. Bathed in Irrigation ditches when necessary. Meals were Monotonous many times, but the cooks did a damn good job for what they had to work with. Entertainment: Mostly made our own (e.g. cards, socializing, etc.)

Missed most whilst in the military

Personal freedom.

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

Discipline - That GIs in the 442 and MIS made it possible for us to live as we do today.

Additional information

The biggest personal battles came after I received my Ph. D. degree, mainly to secure an academic position and to be finally accepted by my professional peers.

Further information can be found in the Archives, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 97331 and the Archives of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA.