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Show LK MK So now you left, when did you leave Japan? Well, the first time I left, I left Japan 1 June, 1950 and was discarged on 16 June, 1950 after four years tour. I enlisted for three years and I had to extend one year in order to get to Japan. When my tour was up I decided to get out and go back to school. That was my main purpose was to go back to school actually. So I took a transfer June 1st 1950 at Camp Tollman in California there and was discharged the 16th of June and on the 25th of June the North Koreans came across the Yellow River, starting the war. The 25th of June 1950. When that thing happened I didn't know what to do. I didn't know whether I wanted to go back to school or find work and, of course, I checked with Hill Air Force Base at Dugway and Tooele Army Depot and the Ogden Arsenal. I guess at that time was known as an Arsenal. In getting into work I was used to, counter intelligent activities, you know, security work. They were available to me but I didn't decide. By this time, when the war broke out, a number of my master sergeant's friends in Tokyo were being shipped over. There were about thirteen of them as I recall. My friends, colleagues, people I worked with, I taught and worked with were over there. Both Caucasians and Niseis. When the war broke out well they were sent over right away and I would have been 26 |
