| Title |
Jun Kurumada, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, April 18, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 339 |
| Alternative Title |
Jun Kurumada, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Kurumada, Jun, 1913-2013 |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2001-04-18 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States; Japan |
| Subject |
Kurumada, Jun, 1913-2013--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Japanese American; Veterans--Utah--Biography |
| Keywords |
Tokyo; Sapporo; Yokohama; Dentists |
| Description |
Transcript (30 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Jun Kurumada on April 18, 2001. This is from tape number 339 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Jun Kurumada (b. 1913) graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in dentristry in 1937 and opened an office on Main Street in Salt Lake City. He reflects on life in Utah during World War II. He was drafted into the army in 1953 and was stationed in Tokyo, Sapporo, and Yokohama. 30 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
30 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6qr6w9p |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Japanese Americans |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1026194 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6qr6w9p |
| Title |
Page 27 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1026188 |
| OCR Text |
Show JUN KURUMADA PRI 1 2 BEC: Oh, I see. JUN: I wouldn't be able to stay in because if you ve b en r j ct d a c nd time from promotion then that's the time you're asked to ... you get your walking pap rs. See, so you don't get in. So I figured, why waste my time for the next six years and th n get booted out. That's what would happen. I talked to a couple of other fellows, not in the medical corp, but as reserves and who attained the ... well, they were in-I think this one fellow was a lieutenant colonel, one was a major-and both of them were ready for retirement but they spent 18 years and they never got their next promotion and so they were released. BEC: dental practice. JUN: BEC: JUN: Oh. So you were able to come back and devote your time to your Well, yeah. I had to build that all up again. Get along with your life and not worry about those letters anymore. No. As far as the time I spent in Japan I think it was very easy tour of duty because I was just working in dental clinics and working as a dental officer in the hospitals I was in. Like in Sapporo and ... I was initially at the airbase in Chitose and then at the Sapporo General Hospital that the Army had taken over. And then later I came down to Sendai at Camp Fowler. There were three camps in Sendai. One was Camp Sendai, one was Camp Fowler, and one was Camp Sendai and I was at Camp Fowler for a short time. Then during that time, why, the Army, I had participated in the bowling program that the Army had. And so I won the championship Camp Y oungans and at Camp Hauean so then sent me down to Yokohama to participate in the bowling tournament down there. At which time I met Colonel Kelly, who I knew. He was a 25 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6qr6w9p/1026188 |
