| 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 97 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029347 |
| OCR Text |
Show BILL: Yeah. I liked Saving Private Ryan except the premi e was rath r dumb. Th noise was just about what it is. There's so much noise you can t believe it. You can t believe the noise! There's another one called Cross of Iron that Peckinpah made. It's th German Army down in the Crimea when they are being kicked out of Russia. James Mason plays a colonel in it. Charles Coburn plays a sergeant in the German Army. It's a good war movie. It doesn't matter that they are Germans or what they are. The combat in it is good. The combat in Private Ryan is good, except they put-Did you ever see it? JAS: No, I haven't. BILL: Well, they are down in this kind of ravine, and the Germans are shelling them, but they shell for hours on end. The premise is they get this group, six or eight men there to go find Private Ryan. His only brother has been killed, and he's in the paratroopers, and they want to bring him back out of there and bring him home. Well, we don't know exactly where he is. Well, they've got radios. They could have damn soon found out where he was, so they wouldn't have send these six people to route ahead of the lines to find Private Ryan, and then when they do, when the three that are left finally do find him, he's says, "I'm not leaving. These are my brothers. This is my family. I'm not leaving these people." You know, you wouldn't. But the show was good, and the combat was good. The noise was good. If you ever get a chance to, rent it or something, because it's a pretty good movie. JAS: Okay. BILL: I'll never find it again. JAS: You said there was an evening when you were at Guam that you were up at the 96 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6516194/1029347 |
