| 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 71 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029321 |
| OCR Text |
Show " kay m ving out." H 'd throw th steak back in hi m kit. put it in th pa k. H must have had that damn steak for a week before he got it at n! h d! But wh n they said, "Lights out " everybody sat there with a raw steak and two eggs. fall th stupidity I've ever heard of in my life! And I don't know where the artillery ob rvation was; there was no- we never got any fire from anybody. JAS: You were in an open field, you said. BILL: Yeah, it was just a big, open field. And then you go ... So out of the thirteen months, I was in the rear one month when I was in the hospital (on the Haven) and then maybe a week going from one position to another position. The rest of the time we were forty-eight days on the lines without having a hot meal. JAS: Wow. BILL: You're only supposed to go two weeks. We went somewhere fifty days without a shower, without even taking our shoes off. And when we finally got- that was up north -when we got back down, everybody started peeling off all ... God! Everybody looked great, big, with all their clothes on; when they got in this army shower and you started looking around and you didn't recognize a soul. All these skinny, white little people with just coal black faces and coal black hands up to about your wrist, that far, from fires and gun smoke and stuff. Just coal black on your face and neck and hands. JAS: Wow. BILL: Oh, God, it was funny seeing: "Who in the hell? I don't recognize anybody!" And then, of course, you kept your boots and you had your rifles and packs and 70 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6516194/1029321 |
