| 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 76 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029326 |
| OCR Text |
Show I said "Yes sir." He said, "Let me see you hit those people." I said, "Alright." So I sighted in my rifle at about three or four hundred yard and I got off three clips and part of a fourth before they found out where they were getting killed from. They were all getting shot in the back and the back of the head. Then, pretty soon, they thought, "Wait a minute. Where the hell are they firing from?" They finally found out it was coming from the rear and they broke and ran and took off and went up this trail. Well, we had machine guns set up facing that trail. They came up that trail and, boy, that gunner had a field day. Man, he was inaudible. Well, I know I killed eighteen or twenty and he must have killed thirty. JAS: Wow. BILL: Boy, that stinger. He just puts it on a tripod; no traversing mechanism on it. No sight. It's just a free gun so boy, you can just rake it. Man, he had a field day. And then we went up to the top. Well, when we got up to the top there was no way back down. Fox company never came up. They were still pinned down down there: "I don't know who's pinning them down." There was two knolls and then the saddle was here and there was a little hump here and then a higher one and we were just down on this bottom one. We got right up to there and, God, the sky turned black from hand grenades. Man, they threw hand grenades over, just- and it wounded quite a few. But a gook hand grenade, they break up mostly into little needles. They aren't like ours. Ours 75 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6516194/1029326 |
