0:00 - Driving in a Jeep with American driver through Japan / Seeing the devastation in Hiroshima

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Keywords: American GI; American soldier; atomic bomb; bridge; devastation; ditch; fire; Hiroshima; interpreter; Japanese civilians; Japanese farmers; Japanese soldiers; Japanese train; Jeep; police station; railroad station; rivers; street car

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7:55 - Returned to family's house in Hiroshima

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Keywords: American soldier; atomic bomb; atomic bomb victims; Aunt; bombsite; brother; family reunion; ground zero; Hiroshima; house; Jeep; Mother

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13:12 - Mother told him about the day the bomb was dropped -- Family suffered from the attack

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Keywords: atomic bomb; atomic bomb victims; aunt; bomb shelter; brother; children; cousins; family; Hiroshima; hospital; Kobe; mother; radiation; relatives; survivors

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19:26 - Discharged from Occupation Forces / Returned to Japan in 1947 as a linguist

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Keywords: brothers; Chicago; Department of Army Civilian Services; disability; discharged; Fort Lewis; hospital; J-Town; Japanese linguist; Japanese Town; linguists; Los Angeles; Mother; Occupation Forces; Occupation of Japan; Occupied Japan; physical examination

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22:11 - Family returned to Hiroshima after brother's death / Korean War began -- Involved in Special Intelligence Operations in Japan

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Keywords: 25th Division; atomic bomb victims; brothers; China; CIC School; Hiroshima; hospital; Kobe; Korea; Korean War; Military Intelligence Operation; Mother; Special Intelligence; Toyama Prefecture

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25:59 - Attended Military Intelligence School in Presidio, San Francisco / Assigned as a liaison to the Japanese government

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Keywords: Baltimore; Japanese government; liaison; Military Intelligence School; Presidio; San Francisco; Special Operations; Tokyo

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27:30 - Post-World War II military service

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Keywords: Fort Mead; Japan; Maryland; Military Intelligence Units; military service; Okinawa; retirement; Vietnam; Vietnam War

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