| 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 50 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029300 |
| OCR Text |
Show But once the shooting starts it just isn't frightening. You aren't afraid y u kn w? You're busy doing something else. And what you're mostly afraid of, I think, i th unknowing. You know, it's your mind that - it isn't the actual happening. It's in y ur mind where it's worse than it actually is. JAS: Yeah. BILL: You know. And what the hell? If you get killed it's all over anyway. And I got hit in the lung. Well, it didn't go in the lung, it just went in the chest cavity. Anybody else would have lost a lung. I didn't lose a lung. Just went in the chest cavity. I got one in the leg and it was going end over end so it didn't penetrate, didn't break the bone. So ... I've got another one that went through my arm. Didn't hit a bone. So, you know, "I'm not going to get killed." JAS: I can see how you would sort of develop a sense of, like, invulnerability. BILL: Yeah! JAS: Being injured that much. BILL: And then, of course, you're seventeen and eighteen and you feel like you're invulnerable anyway. You know? "Oh, it will happen to somebody else." But, that soon leaves you! But, no, I never had a feeling of dying. I never had a feeling of a superior being or a power watching over me. If there were a superior being, why would they allow stuff like this to go on? And I know you get a hell of a lot of arguments on that, but really: why? If we're made in his image, what the hell is he letting us kill one another for? JAS: I guess people say it's a test. 49 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6516194/1029300 |
