Mr. Wilds spent eighteen months studying Japanese in Army schools during World War II and another year and a half in Japan and Korea with the occupation forces. After his discharge he took a bachelor’s degree in Oriental Civilizations at the University of Michigan and went on to two years of graduate work at that University’s Center for Japanese Studies, taking two master’s degrees—one in Far Eastern Studies and the other in history. Mr. Wilds is presently employed by the Office of the Chief of Military History, Special Staff, U. S. Army, as a research assistant engaged in studies of Japanese operations in the Pacific during World War II.
