Wartime Memories

Tag: 1926

  • Richard Davidson

    E02U, Richard Davidson ‘94, Hiroko Suzuki, Grandmother, 1926, Ibaraki I talked to my maternal grandmother in November 1992, to find out more about her experiences during World War II. Q: How old were you during the last year of World War II?A: I was just a little older than you—I was 19 years old. Q:…

  • Thomas Davies

    F01, Thomas Davies ‘97, Wakako Ashizawa, Grandmother, 1926, Yamanashi I interviewed my maternal grandmother on December 1, 1995. She was born in 1926 and is 69 years old. Q: What was your most fearsome experience during the war? A: I feared that my husband, your grandfather, would not come back from the war. He was…

  • Maki Igarashi

    L05, Maki Igarashi ‘04, Hisako Ogura, Grandmother, 1926, Aichi I interviewed my maternal grandmother, Hisako Ogura, on November 10, 2002. She was born in 1926 and is 76 years old now. It was 1944, I think, when the war got worse. Inside Japan there were many air raids. Do you know what air raids are?…

  • Miyu Kojima

    S03, Miyu Kojima ‘18, Tomō Sugisaka, Family friend, 1926, Hiroshima On November 15, 2016, I interviewed a family friend, Mr Tomō Sugisaka. He is about 90 years old. Q: What were you doing during the Second World War? A: One year before the end of the war, at around the beginning of October 1944, I…

  • Yukiko Yamaguchi

    H18, Yukiko Yamaguchi ‘00, Mieko Oda, Grandmother, 1926, Kyōto On November 8, 1998, I interviewed my maternal grandmother, Mieko Oda, who is 72 years old.  My grandmother was born and raised in Tango, located in the northern part of Kyōto prefecture, and that was where she was living during World War II. Japan officially became…