Hubert Yoshida is a Vietnam Veteran who served as a U.S. Marine Corps Platoon Commander from 1965-1966 close to Chu Lai within the central a part of Vietnam with 2nd Battalion, seventh Marines.
He and his platoon fought within the bloody Operation Utah, a big battle from March 4-7, 1966, which noticed over 700 KIA between the North and South Vietnamese forces and Marines. Hubert has an interesting story that begins as a baby in a Japanese jail camp within the U.S., to main Marines on the entrance traces, after which transitioning to an exceptionally profitable profession in senior govt roles within the personal sector.
Right now, he’s writing a ebook about Operation Utah to inform the story of the tons of of Marines who fought there and is searching for anybody who might have served in that battle.
0:00 Intro.
2:20 – Rising up in a jail camp for US residents of Japanese ancestry.
7:17 – Household historical past in each the Japanese and US navy.
8:41 – Needed to enlist to serve in Vietnam to then earn a fee.
9:15 – Will get put in a knowledge processing unit.
10:56 – Dad and mom have been upset he joined the Marine Corps after a level in physics and math from Berkely and never going to grad faculty.
15:17 – First sighting in Vietnam was an Army Sergeant in underwear ingesting a beer on the seashore.
18:06 – Will get permission from the CO to go on a mission to a close-by village in first contact.
18:34 – The unit is ambushed on their first mission.
33:17 – Lead as much as Operation Utah. Intel on the twenty first NVA Regiment transferring into Chu Lai.
36:17 – Preliminary flights into the battle have been shot down, together with an A-4 Skyhawk and H-34 by fifty caliber machine weapons.
39:26 – Name from Battalion Commander to help one other firm to shut a niche within the flank and recuperate a separated platoon.
41:14 – A suicide mission.
49:57 – Guilt in leaving the lifeless behind to verify the wounded have been carried out.
50:55 – Secures perimeter one among his males will get killed they name in air strikes.
58:23 – Recognizing the significance of the battle in your life and one thing you consider nearly each evening.
58:59 – The story of believing he misplaced a radio man haunts him to at the present time and solely later discovered the radio man lived by way of the occasion.
1:05:41 – Returning residence from Vietnam and assigned to Camp Pendleton.
1:06:19 – Having to inform a younger widow of her husband’s passing in Vietnam.
1:07:52 – Leaves the Marine Corps after the loss of life notification and joins IBM.
1:08:45 – Returning to Vietnam in 2016 to revisit his steps.
1:15:34 – By no means supplied path to youngsters when it comes to becoming a member of the navy.
1:17:45 – Would have completed it once more.
1:18:21 – Actually proud to have been within the Marine Corps.
1:20:33 – Carrying a pocket bible by way of the deployment (one in English, one in Korean).
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