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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Honor Flight DFW profiles Spring-Summer 2013


 

Riosuke enlisted into the U.S.Army on October 12, 1945 at the age of 22.

After basic training he had additional training as a medical corpsman.

It was in this capacity that Riosuke was assigned to the Mason General Hospital in Brentwood, New York. Later he was transferred to the Valley Forge General Hospital in Pennsylvania.

Riosuke has said that one of his most memorable and tragic memories were working with servicemen who had been blinded during the war.

He was discharged from the military with the rank of PFC on May 29, 1947.

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