Norman Kikuta
Military Intelligence Service

Military Enlistment

Norman Kikuta

Norman quits Teachers College to join the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Not selected, he works for the U.S. Army Commissary.

Inducted into the army in June 1943, he volunteers and qualifies for the Military Intelligence Service. He ships out for language school at Camp Savage, Minnesota.

Meanwhile, his brother Kunio, a 1942 draftee, joins the 442nd and trains at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. In Europe, he sees combat as an ammunition sergeant.