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Henry Hidemi Furuya
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Birth date | 1929-3-26 |
| Place of birth | HI, U.S.A. |
| Inducted | 1948-7-2, Honolulu HI |
| Enlistment type | Volunteer |
| Service branch | Army |
| Service type | War,peacetime |
| Unit type | Combat,sup |
| Units served | 7/48-7/50: Enlisted Service (Cpl) 8309th Sig Svs, Ft Shafter, HI 8/50-1/51: Officer Candidate School, Ft. Riley, KS 2/51-5/51: Student Officer - The Infantry School, Ft. Benning, GA 6/51-7/52: POW Interrogation Officer, Hq 3rd Inf Div, Korea 7/52-7/53: Translation Officer, 509th MISP, Sendai, Japan 8/53-1/54: Co. Exec Officer, USARPAC DEF FORCE, Ft. Shafter, HI 2/54-2/81: U.S. Army Reserve (retired as a Colonel) Ft. DeRussy, HI |
| Military specialty | 9335 Intelligence Officer |
| Stationed | USA: Ft. Shafter,HI; Ft. Riley,KS; Ft. Benning, GA Other Countries: Korea; Japan |
| Separated | Ft. DeRussey HI |
| Unit responsibility | POW interrogation and translation of captured documents. |
| Personal responsibility | POW interrogation, train enlisted interrogators, review interrogation reports and document translations. |
| Major battles (if served in a war zone) | Korea: UN Summer-Fall Offensive 2nd Korean Winter Summer-Fall '52. |
| Awards, medals, citations (individual or unit) | Legion of Merit Bronze Star Korean Service Medal w/3 Bronze Service Stars UN Service Medal Meritorious Unit Commendation Korean Presidential Unit Citation National Defense Medal 1 O/S Bar Armed Forces Reserve Medal w/2 Stars Army Reserve Achievement Medal w/2 Stars |
| Living conditions | We lived in squad tents with a pot belly stove on each end of the tent. These stoves did little to keep us warm during winter. We were provided army cots with air mattress to sleep on. There was very little entertainment. I saw one USO show with Danny Kaye while in Korea. |
| Most vivid memory of military experience | As an enlisted man in 1949, I was selected to be a pall bearer for Ernie Pyle during his reinterrment ceremony at the National Cemetary of the Pacific in Hawaii. |
| Missed most whilst in the military | Family and old friends, especially while in Korea. |
| Most important thing, personally, to come from military experience? | Gained maturity, enlisted as a nineteen year-old kid and left active service as a matured officer. |
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