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MU: Now, what was your work in Japan? You went there in '45, and what was your assignment?

GK: In November of 1945 I was with the PACMIRS. The PACMIRS established the Washington Document Center advance. And sixty of us were sent to Japan in November. So I was with Washington Document Center. Our assignment was to go to universities, and colleges, and libraries, to see what kind of publications Japan had (regarding) the United States (...) forces, or about the information (about) the United States. But they didn't have anything much. So then, after four months of that, my assignment was over and I was to (be sent) back to be discharged.

MU: Now, when you went over there with this group of sixty, were you the leader?

GK: I, there was, sixty was divided into three groups: twenty, twenty, twenty. I was the leader of one group. Itami -- was another master sergeant -- led another one. Another group of twenty was headed by Jimmy (Matsumura).

MU: Also master sergeant?

GK: Master sergeant. So we were assigned to lead the three different groups.

MU: And then did you say you came back shortly after that?

GK: No, I stayed until the mission was over. And then I took my discharge in Japan.

MU: Oh, okay.

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