Jun Kurumada, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, April 18, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 339

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JUN KURUMADA RI 18 2001 two on the street now that haven't been taken down. But this Mclntyr building i th first building that I opened an office in. BEC: And you were working by yourself, I mean you didn t go in with another dentist? JUN: BEC: JUN: BEC: JUN: No. No. Were you married at that point? No. Not at that time. So, 1937 ... That was, I would say, four years prior to Pearl Harbor and in 1940 there was a dental officer, an Army dental officer, by the name of General Fairbanks, who came through and talked to us as a dental association group and he advised all the young fellows to apply for a commission so that in the event that we might be called into the service that we would be at least called in as commissioned officers instead of being drafted as buck privates. So I recall there were four of us went to Fort Douglas and took our so-called enlistment examinations, our physical and all that, and of the four, I think, I was the only one that passed the entire physical examination. The other three they had a little heart murmur or color blindness or something that derailed them to a point but then they were all called in shortly after, I think it was after 1942, they were called into the service. I also received a letter from the war department to be prepared to be called into the service and they specified a certain time that I would be called in. So I prepared myself and then the gist of the letters were to wind up your business, wind it up and be prepared to go in. So I prepared myself by referring my patients to other dentists· and 10