Harry Toda was a member of the Recovered Personnel Division in the Philippines. Having been activated at the close of the Philippine campaign, the division's purpose was to follow the airborne units into Japan and liberate Allied prisoners in the Japanese POW camps. Under this assignment, Toda acted as interrogator and interpreter to determine the kind of treatment the prisoners had to endure and to find out about the health and welfare of these men.
<br><br>After serving with the two recovery teams, RT-30 and RT-31, Toda moved on to Tokyo, where he became a member of the Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS) and began work in the Letter Translation Section. This section received all types of letters addressed to Gen. Douglas MacArthur: letters of complaint, praise, demand, those pertaining to the Occupation, and others. Among the linguists working in the section were one Caucasian officer, a few Kibei and Nisei, and one Chinese American.
<br><br>Toda received his honorable discharge at Fort Lewis in July of 1946.
