| Title |
Bill Pastore, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Jason Hardy, September 20th, 2006: part of the Saving the legacy project |
| Alternative Title |
Bill Pastore, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Pastore, Bill, 1925- |
| Contributor |
Hardy, Jason; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2006-09-22 |
| Date Digital |
2015-12-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea; Guam; Mariana Islands; Iwo Jima, Japan; Korea |
| Subject |
Pastore, Bill, 1925- --Interviews; Veterans--United States--Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--Military operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area--Personal narratives, American; Iwo Jima, Battle of, Japan, 1945--Personal narratives, American; Marines--Biography; Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American |
| Keywords |
Snipers; Scouts |
| Description |
Transcript (145 pages) of an interview by Jason Hardy with Bill Pastore on September 20, 2006. Part of the "Saving the Legacy" Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Pastore (b. 1925) enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1943. He served in the Pacific in World War II and in Korea. He recounts his experiences in detail. Interviewed by Jason Hardy. 145 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
145 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6516194 |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Iwo Jima, Battle of (Japan : 1945); Korean War (1950-1953) |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029397 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6516194 |
| Title |
Page 41 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029291 |
| OCR Text |
Show n ver ee them. Never ee anybody. And I thought "W 11 it' pr bably ham rr . ' th Guamanians because they're all over out there. JA : These are native people? BILL: Yeah these are natives. They spoke English. They were the first people that we saw that were humans. The rest were these natives with the big, thick lips. These people were part Spanish and part Polynesian. Beautiful people. And they loved the Americans. And I thought, "Well, that's what they are," but I'm on a recon patrol and I don't want to ... So I just rolled off the trail into some brush, into the jungle. And it was, oh, just maybe that deep. Just - I don't know what it was. Just a little depression; ground's never right level. And I just laid there and had my head in my arms like this, waiting for them to pass. Now, my fighting knife is here, my hand grenade is down under it. It's over on this side. And who comes down the trail but four Japanese soldiers with rifles, bayonets ... Full gear. And I thought, "Oh, Christ!" "But that's nothing. They'll just walk on by." Well, they didn't. They stopped right in front of me; right there! And went over in the brush and got some dry sticks and made a little fire and put their pot on. And I thought, "Oh, God." And I knew they could hear me. I knew they could hear my heart. It must have been ... I've never been so scared in my life. And I thought, "Now, if I move, they' ll see the movement. And if I can get that knife out, I can maybe get one. But what am I going to do with the other three? Now, if I 40 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6516194/1029291 |
