| 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 108 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029358 |
| OCR Text |
Show BILL: Y ah yeah. Th rewa a big flotilla well three di i ion and th r ar tw ntythree thousand men in a division. That ship would probably hold a battali n, and th r ' three battalions in a regiment; three regiments in a division. Then you had the carriers the destroyers, the cruisers, the battleships, all the support ships. Everywhere you look d there was nothing but ships. You could hardly see the water there was so many of them. They come up, so we bombed it for seventy-two days. Bombed and shelled for seventytwo days, twenty-four hours a day. JAS: And you were on deck the entire time or were you on land? BILL: Oh no, we were down on Guam training still because they started days before we started up there. JAS: Okay. BILL: And then they'd lift the fire as you make your landing. When your first wave is so close in, they lift the barrage. They keep it going to keep people shocked, until you're within six or seven hundred yards of the shore. Then they raise the barrage and moved it inland. Well, the people that didn't know, and the people that should have known, said, "Oh, there won't be anybody left on Iwo Jima." Well all the shelling and all the bombings does it blow the camouflage off the positions. That's all it does. These people of Suribachi, they were in so deep in there. It looked like an ant hive. You know how an ant nest looks with all- that's what Suribachi looked like, and then the caves went clear under the island. They'd been there seventy years, so they would come up from these underground passages to the gun; and on the deck, they had a ring. It was all azimuths. All they had to do was tum that gun to that 107 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6516194/1029358 |
