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MU: Okay. Now you had enough of camp life, and so you took the job and went to the MIS.
MM: That's right.
MU: And you went there as the typist, and fortunately for you, there was a need in John Aiso's office for more secretarial work, was it?
MM: Yes. It was supposed to be a temporary job but I stayed with him until the end, when he went overseas. He got orders to go overseas around, I think it was about October of'45 or so. I can't remember the exact date but somewhere around then he got the orders to go overseas.
MU: When did you get to... well, Fort Snelling at that time, I guess it was Camp Savage.
MM: When Major Aiso left? That was after the war.
MU: No, when you arrived.
MM: Oh, I was at Camp Savage.
MU: Savage? So, that would be about 1942?
MM: '43, September of '43, I left Topaz around the 23rd. So I would venture to guess it was about the 25th.
MU: Okay. And then how long did you stay there?
MM: At Camp Savage?
MU: I mean, for your stay with MISLS, working with John Aiso?
MM: Fall of '45, I believe it was. Fall of '45.
MU: Was that when John Aiso got his assignment to Tokyo?
MM: Yeah, and then he left. And then Paul Tekawa, you may have -- took over, so I worked with him for a while. So I don't know how long that was.
MU: Well, you were there approximately two years or so then?
MM: Approximately, yeah, two years. Not very long, but...
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