Bill Pastore, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Jason Hardy, September 20th, 2006: part of the Saving the legacy project

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h adquarter or G company will be headquarter -they can nam what v r c n1pany th want as the headquarters company. That s the clerk typist you know, th R mingt n raiders and the dog robbers, the rear echelon people. They don t get up on th lin they bring the supplies up. Now these are all- and you know, we left ... We got taken out of North Korea and that's these pictures back in here. I'll explain those to you: We went down to a place called Mason that's just outside of Pusan. And we'd come out at 40° below zero weather. It was in the winter time, January, December. It was the early part of December when we got down to Mason; it was like summer. It was only about 3° below zero. God, we were running around in shirt sleeves! And we stayed there until we got more people and got resupplied and more equipment. And this is when we're moving out again, when we go out on the attack. We take off on the attack in February. And I don't care when you go, it always rained. Always raining. Everywhere you went: rain, rain, rain. Oh, God! That's miserable to fight in the rain. Really is. And then these are just- now, these are pictures: This one, right here and these, they are not to be published. They were ... there was an army unit in the middle of Korea and, well, I have to go back a little bit. In May, the Chinese had broke through the lines of ... One of the ROK companies had- well, ROK division- that broke and ran and left our whole flank open. So we had to go up and form a hook to protect that flank. Well, just before that, a group, an army outfit, this army outfit was up there. And 25