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Tech 4 Alice T. Kono Oral History
Publication date: 31 July 2024
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title:
Tech 4 Alice T. Kono Oral History
creator:
Kono, Alice Tetsuko
subject:
Women's Army Corps (WAC)
description:
Alice Kono was born in Molokai, Hawaii to Japanese parents (date of birth not provided), and she was in high school when Pearl Harbor was attacked. She was the first of her siblings to join the US military, enlisting in the Women’s Army Corps in 1944. Along with a group of Hawaiian women, she first went to Fort Rutger in Oahu, Hawaii and then went through basic training at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. After basic, she was sent to Des Moines, Iowa for clerical training. Following the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, she was sent to Fort Snelling, Minnesota for intensive military language training to learn Japanese over 6 months (May to November). While she was at this school, the war with Japan ended. She then went to Camp Ritchie, Maryland for 4 months where she transcribed captured plane and air force-related documents from the Pacific. Next, she went to Fort Myer outside Washington, DC for 3 to 4 months. She was in Hawaii when she received her discharge in 1946. She then went to work for Del Monte, transferring to San Francisco after 5 years and staying there for 30 years managing personnel. When she left the service Kono had reached the rank of technician 4th class, and for her service she was awarded a Women’s Army Corps Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, and World War II Victory Medal. No transcript for this interview is currently available.
publisher:
Military Women's Memorial Foundation
contributor:
Tanabe, James T.
date:
2008-01-04
type:
Moving Image
format:
DVD
identifier:
1105; 2008.1105
source:
CLIR - Recordings at Risk
language:
English
relation:
095685
coverage:
World War II (1939-1945)
rights:
Unrestricted