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Top Image: Robert G. Aldous during aircraft armorer training in Denver Colorado. May 1944. Citation: Courtesy of the Aldous family.
All things considered, few people will ever know what it is like to fight in a war. Robert Aldous knows what it’s like to fight in two of them—World War II and Korea. Aldous was born in Ogden, Utah and grew up in the nearby town of Huntsville. He was in church on Sunday, December 7, 1941 when he learned of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and while he did not know the extent to which that event would affect his life, he did know that he would end up in the military at some point. He also knew he wanted to get into aviation, so after graduating high school in May 1943, he went to Salt Lake City, Utah and volunteered for service with the US Army Air Corps.
Aldous went on active duty in August 1943 and was sent to Sheppard Field in Wichita Falls, Texas for basic training. For Aldous, the physical training in the intense summer heat was unbearable, so when one of the base’s shipping sergeants presented him with an opportunity to leave the place, he took it. The sergeant arranged for Aldous to join a College Training Detachment at Texas Tech University, so off he went to Lubbock, Texas for a semester of college courses. When the semester end
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Alaska WWII tube Korean Battle Veteran Looks Back environs 27 Geezerhood of Service
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Spotlight On Young Oak Kim
Young Oak Kim, born in Los Angeles in 1919, was a Korean American United States Army officer during World War II and the Korean War, as well as a civic leader and humanitarian.
Early Life
Kim was a first-generation American born into a Korean family on January 26, 1919, in Los Angeles. Raised with a great sense of patriotism, Kim’s path to the Army was not smooth, as the military often rejected Asian Americans who wanted to enlist. This changed when World War II broke out in Europe in 1939. Congress passed the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, and all able-bodied men, regardless of race, were subjected to the draft. Kim’s draft number was one of the first called, and he entered the Army in January 1941.
Interestingly, as a young man, Kim was also friends with another legend of the Korean-American community Dr. Sammy Lee. Lee would become the first Asian-American to win an Olympic Gold Medal when in the 1948 and 1952 Olympic games.
World War II
Kim was initially enlisted as an engineer before being selected for Infantry Officer Candidate School (OCS). Upon graduation from OCS in 1943, Kim was then assigned to the newly formed 100th Battalion of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which was composed of mostly Japanese-Americans from Hawai