After the war, Frank Wada and his wife, Jean. returned to San Diego, where he designed and built a home on a 350-acre family farm in the Encanto area of San Diego. Together they raised five children.
Wada worked for a time with the post office, went to college, and then for many years in the public works division at the former Naval Training Center San Diego. He started there as a lawn mower repairman and worked his way up to a position as contract specialist before retiring in 1977.
In 2018, Wada posed for a portrait in his WW II uniform for Los Angeles photographer Shane Sato, who has published two volumes of Nisei veterans titled "Go For Broke Spirit: Portraits of Courage." Sato, whose uncles served in the 100th Battalion, said he created the books because not enough Americans knew this chapter of their history.
A Real Hero. --GreGen
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