[6] He met his future wife, Isa Pearl Elliott, at a hotel in Rock Island, Illinois, and the two were married in 1919.

[7] Fujita was the second of five children, born on October 20, 1921, in Lawton while his father worked in the food industry in Oklahoma,[8] enhancing his income further with gambling wins and moonlighting in artistry and sign painting.

Fujita and his siblings were encouraged to absorb the culture of the United States and become "one hundred percent American".

[9] Fujita joined the American Boy Scouts upon moving to El Reno, and survived well under his father's healthy income during the Great Depression.

He obtained work as a cartoonist for a local school newspaper and as a stage hand in various theatre plays.

[12] Fujita became interested in joining the military after hearing of his friend's enjoyment of the Texas National Guard.

[13] Made a PFC and a chauffeur for the battalion officers, Fujita progressed well in the National Guard though struggled at home with his studies.

[14] After accepting an ultimatum from his father to work harder or leave, Fujita chose to hitch-hike to Oklahoma and became an artist and illustrator.

As the only US ground forces in Java, the main body of the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery was attached to an Australian Army formation named Blackforce after its commander, Brigadier Arthur Blackburn.

The Australians lacked infantry units, but included a heavy machine gun battalion, a pioneer battalion, several smaller units, some reinforcements diverted en route to Singapore after the Allied surrender there, a handful of Australian soldiers who had escaped from Singapore, two transport companies, and a casualty clearing station.

However, "E" Battery, 2/131st Field Artillery, including Frank Fujita, were attached to Dutch infantry in Central and East Java.

On March 2, at Leuwiliang, 15 miles (24 km) west of Buitenzorg, "D" Battery, 2/131st Field Artillery, supported the makeshift Australian infantry, positioned along a riverbank.

At 09:00 on 8 March, the Commander-in-Chief of the Allied forces — Ter Poorten — announced the surrender of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army in Java.

[27] Due to his ethnicity, Fujita was separated from other American prisoners and forced to produce propaganda broadcasts for the Japanese.

I am free!Like most of his fellow inmates, Fujita was returned to the United States over a period of several weeks in late 1945.