Sho Onodera(1915-1974)
- Actor
Sho Onodera Served our country bravely as a member of the Military
intelligence Service during WWII. He was born in Seattle, WA and was
living in Los Angeles when the war broke out. He was rounded up as were
120,000 other persons of Japanese ancestry and sent off to an interment
camp, Sho was sent to Manzanar, in central CA. From here he enlisted in
the Army and because he had spent part of his youth in Japan was
assigned to the Military Intelligence Service and brushed up on his
Japanese at Camp Savage in WI. His skills were so good that he was an
instructor at Camp Savage and participated in the war crimes trials in
Japan after the war.