Claude Morita

Claude Morita was born in Hood River, Oregon, in 1928. After the attack on Pearl Harbor,
he and his family were interned in the Pinedale, Tule Lake, and Minidoka concentration camps
for the duration of WWII. He later served as a US soldier during the Occupation of Japan, and then
as a civilian employee in the Korean and Vietnam wars, when he interrogated Korean and
Japanese prisoners of war. Morita was involved in the historical recordkeeping at Pacific Air
Forces in Hawaii, Seventh Air Force in Vietnam, and Naval Criminal Investigative Service at
Sasebo and Yokosuka naval bases in Japan.