![]() After being arrested by the Japanese police, Nishida was handed over to the Occupation’s intelligence agency, and according to him, US military personnel – a White officer, a Black soldier, and a Nisei interpreter – interrogated and “tortured” him for the names of his Communist comrades. His affiliation with the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) apparently brought him more misfortune. The leaflet’s message telling US soldiers not to go to Korea became an “offense prejudicial to the security of the Occupation Forces,” and the Occupation’s provost court sentenced him to three years of confinement with hard labor. In September 1951, Nishida was arrested by the Japanese police for distributing “antiwar leaflets” to US soldiers outside a US military camp in Otsu City. The story of 87-year-old Japanese man named Nishida Kiyoshi is heartbreaking. Careers, Fellowships, and Internships Open/CloseĪs this past June marked 70 years since the outbreak of the Korean War, the Japanese newspaper Kyoto Shimbun spotlighted untold stories of the Korean War experienced in US-occupied Japan.Science and Technology Innovation Program.The Middle East and North Africa Workforce Development Initiative.Kissinger Institute on China and the United States.Nuclear Proliferation International History Project.North Korea International Documentation Project. ![]() Environmental Change and Security Program.Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy.I did, 3 years in the Army Nurse Corps, then transferred to the USAF, married a blue-suit guy & served 20 years myself.įriendly URL: Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. When I was ready for Nursing School, Mom said the Army was a good way of life, I should consider. I’m so proud of her and the thousands of Army & Navy nurses who served in WWII & Korea. To me its a tear-jerker every time I watch. He had retired to Waterville but did not speak publicly My Dad got wind of this, saying, "my wife was a MASH nurse!" So she was recorded on NBC-TV. Richard Hornberger, a former Army surgeon who wrote the novel, ‘MASH’. Long story concluding, in 1988, as part of the NBC preview to the Seoul summer Olympics, a production team came to Augusta where my parents had retired, to Gardiner. Transferred to Waltham Mass, Murphy Army Hospital, She served 8 years Active Duty until required to get out when I was born there. way before we knew about PTSD among all soldiers. Nurses were allowed to serve in the war zone only 6 months, you know, the weaker sex. She has quite a portfolio of slides scanned, and copies sent to the Women’s Military Memorial in Wash, DC (Arlington VA). The MASH units of course were to be behind the front lines, but during Chinese advances, the MASH units hadn’t been moved fast enough, soon enough, usually happening at night. It was the long freezing winter of 1950-51 with intense fighting against the Chinese. Her orders came November 1950, she arrived at 8055 MASH Thanksgiving Day (the namesake actually of TV’s 4077 MASH). Then suddenly came the Korean War, in summer of 1950, MASH units were formed and sent from Japan. Imagine young nurses serving so far overseas for 3 years continually- no phones, very slow mail. She toured the horrible conditions Army nurses & patients suffered on the Rock islands of Corrigador when they were overrun by the Japanese. Then she was transferred to Kyoto Japan, the US Army Hospital. It was after WW2, but nurses were still needed to rotate to the Hospitals for US Armies of the Occupation in Manilla, Philippines, and Japan, so she was transferred to Manilla and arrived there on Christmas Day, balmy compared to South Portland!! She was stationed at Ft Williams, Cape Elizabeth for perhaps a couple years. ![]() She took Basic Training for nurses at Ft Devens, Massachusetts. My Mother, Genevieve McLean, entered The Army Nurse Corps in 1945, after graduating from Rumford Hospital School Of Nursing 1943. Video courtesy of YouTube, NBC Today Show from the 1988 Seoul Olympics. ![]() My mom, Genevieve McLean was an Army nurse and appears in this segment about the MASH units.
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