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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my foxhole because that was the direction they were going - and th battali n commander of the British commandos and the company commander f king company Kilo, it was a marine, they were going to break through to the outer rim to Hagaru and Yudam-ni to relieve the 7 th and 5 th Regiment up there, to break through. Well, they used my foxhole and this British commando was talking to his platoon leaders and his 1st sergeant and a couple of the others were down in the foxhole with him just waiting for this critique to get over. And this guy had been thirteen years- thirteen years in the military - and he had been home three times. In thirteen years ... JAS: What a life. BILL: He said, "Now we're coming up to this," and he said, "This don't look good." And I said, "Well, there's a lot of them out there." Well, they jumped off in the attack and there weren't many of them to come back. My God, there were 130,000 Chinese between them and the Yalu River. And there was a rail line that went down by the side of us -just passed this [referring to picture] -you can't see it from here- and it went on, onto, I guess, Siberia and into Manchuria and then it was supposed to be part of the Orient Express; I don't know. But we were ... It was after the firefight the next night and these red flares started popping. There was a little fence out there and you could see the rail line. And you could see people out there! So our machine gun opened up on them and the flares went up. About twenty minutes later, a flare would pop again. So the company commander called. China Red, our company commander. He 56