WEBVTT 00:10.330 --> 00:13.620 (interviewer) When you knew that 00:13.620 --> 00:20.440 Senator Daniel Inouye was wounded in his arm, 00:20.440 --> 00:26.940 was that a point of recognition for both of you when you met? 00:26.940 --> 00:32.770 Yeah, he’s really a gutsy guy. 00:32.770 --> 00:37.750 He attacked this machine gun nest, annihilated all the German-- 00:37.750 --> 00:41.520 I think he killed about 25 Germans, all by himself. 00:41.520 --> 00:49.450 Then he got hit in the gut, his arm was shot off, and he survived. 00:49.450 --> 00:54.520 I don’t know how, but he was sent 00:54.520 --> 01:02.360 to a Washington, D.C. hospital, an orthopedic hospital. 01:04.810 --> 01:13.700 Then I was sent to Brigham City, Utah, it’s 80 miles north of Salt Lake City. 01:13.700 --> 01:18.580 They built a hospital there, orthopedic hospital for amputees 01:18.580 --> 01:23.120 and paraplegic-- people that got hit in the spine, 01:23.120 --> 01:26.930 lost control of the bottom half of their body. 01:28.730 --> 01:32.400 The nurses treat us real nice. 01:32.760 --> 01:39.450 The nurses were-- every ward had a lieutenant, a nurse. 01:39.450 --> 01:45.600 They treat us real nice because the boys, when they have surgery and things, 01:45.600 --> 01:48.250 they don’t holler like the rest of them. 01:48.250 --> 01:53.650 So they kind of catered to us real nice. 01:54.500 --> 01:58.410 (interviewer) Tell me about how you were injured. 02:00.130 --> 02:03.400 This was after the Lost Battalion. 02:07.120 --> 02:20.610 On December 4th or 5th, after we rescued the Texas Lost Battalion. 02:20.610 --> 02:26.690 We went ahead, we mopped up the area, got rid of all the enemy. 02:26.690 --> 02:30.310 Then onward, we went to a place called Biffontaine. 02:30.310 --> 02:35.890 It’s a level area, and I got caught by machine gun fire. 02:35.890 --> 02:38.130 It just took my arm off. 02:38.130 --> 02:41.920 But if that machine gun went from right to left, 02:41.920 --> 02:46.080 I would’ve been dead because it [would] cut across my heart. 02:46.080 --> 02:54.830 I was lucky because it went outward. Left and outward, and it took my arm. 02:54.830 --> 02:57.060 That saved my life. 02:57.060 --> 03:00.860 And the boys, medics came, gave me a tourniquet 03:00.860 --> 03:03.340 and sent me to the field hospital. 03:03.340 --> 03:09.140 Then from the field hospital, all the way across the Atlantic. 03:09.140 --> 03:16.460 North Atlantic, a German submarine was sinking our ships. 03:16.460 --> 03:21.830 So from Marseille, France, we go down south 03:21.830 --> 03:27.250 and across Atlantic to Virginia, Newport News, Virginia. 03:27.250 --> 03:32.080 Why, it was terrible because the Germans were attacking our ships. 03:32.080 --> 03:39.100 You know, during the war, they killed quite a few whale. 03:39.100 --> 03:46.080 The sonar contact the whale, the sonar does not know 03:46.080 --> 03:50.310 it’s a whale or ship, so it knocked the whale off. 03:51.430 --> 03:54.420 So that’s what I heard, anyway. 03:55.060 --> 03:57.770 (interviewer) Did you ever see that happen on your ship, then? 03:57.770 --> 03:59.150 Oh, no. 04:01.500 --> 04:07.500 (interviewer) You ended up in Utah for your rehabilitation? 04:07.500 --> 04:11.440 Is that where you ended up, in Utah? 04:11.440 --> 04:19.430 Yeah, in Utah. In Utah, we were in the country. 04:21.240 --> 04:30.310 It was a fruit orchard, they had cherries and peaches and so forth. 04:31.110 --> 04:35.170 Right in the middle of the farmland. 04:35.170 --> 04:40.330 Aw man, we were kind of disgusted because the little town of Brigham City 04:40.330 --> 04:43.850 was a little hick town, nothing to do there. 04:43.850 --> 04:50.120 So what we’d do is on Saturdays, we catch the streetcar 04:50.120 --> 04:56.450 and go all the way to Ogden, 40 miles south. 04:56.450 --> 04:59.900 Then another 40 miles to Salt Lake City. 05:00.460 --> 05:04.970 Salt Lake City, lots of Japanese people there. 05:06.760 --> 05:11.420 They welcomed us, every Saturday, they had something going on.