| 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 115 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1029365 |
| OCR Text |
Show h 11 h l I got hit in th 1 g. W 11 I fi ll in. I know I m hit b cau it hurt lik h 11, an th re s blood all over my legs. All of the platoon hollers ' re you hit?! I said 'Hell yes I'm hit! They said, "Well can you get out? How bad are you hit? ' Well every time I'd raise up to see, they'd shoot this machine gun at me. I wa there, oh, three or four hours before they finally took the pillbox, and then they hauled me out. I've got the bullet somewhere around here; and while I'm looking, because this is a long scar, like the bullet was going end over end. JAS: Looks like three inches. BILL: Oh no, it's only about like that. I exaggerate a little, about like this. JAS: That's huge still. BILL: About like a 30-30, because they use that .31 caliber, and ours is a .30 caliber. That's all. But it's hit on the side, so it looks like it's either a ricochet, but it was tumbling. So it wasn't a straight bullet. Well, I've looked at it, and it's empty in the back. JAS: The bullet? BILL: It's hollow. So what I'm thinking is it' s a 30 aught 6. It's an American bullet, and it was somebody shooting from over here, shooting a tracer, and it hit the pillbox and ricocheted into my leg. JAS: Huh! BILL: And that happens. Ricochets are all the time. You're hearing them, so you know it's no one's fault. I don't know that's what happened, but by this being an empty 114 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6516194/1029365 |
