Glenn Walter Nelson |
Lt. Glenn Nelson, 1945. | World War II, 1939-1946
Marine Corps
29th Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division
Boulder, Colorado; Quantico, Virginia; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Okinawa Island (Ryukyu Islands); Guam (Mariana Islands); North China; Sasebo, Japan
Captain
Slater, WY
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Glenn Nelson, a product of the plains of Wyoming and Nebraska, made an unusual career
choice when he joined the Navy in the early days of World War II; he attended the
service's Japanese Language School. His duties were to translate captured documents and
interrogate the rare captured Japanese soldier. On Okinawa, he took the difficult
assignment of trying to persuade surviving soldiers and civilians to come out from the
island's many caves. He was in Pearl Harbor for the surrender, but by that point Nelson
had become so fascinated with the Japanese that he spent 20 years after the war in Japan
with the Central Intelligence Agency.
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