Alberto Guzman, Riverton, Utah: an interview by Jason Hardy, February 10th, 2006: Saving the legacy tape no. SL-754 & 755

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ALBERTO GUZMAN February 10, 2006 ALB: So that takes something. That's where we got hurt" they couldn t make it back - a lot of them got killed. JAS: They had nothing to lose? ALB: No. But their plane got blowed up after, you know, after the United States found out, you know, we got hit. They're still digging out some big cruisers out of there. JAS: Yeah. ALB: They're still in the bottom of the ocean. JAS: Midway is still down there, I think. ALB: Yup, that one is still there. Oklahoma and some other big ships, aircraft carriers, and that's still in the bottom. They're bringing them in a piece at a time. They all died. There were a lot of soldiers in there who all died. JAS: Now, let me ask: when they made you go out into the woods up in Washington, what did you do? How far out did you go? How long were you out there for? ALB: I'd say maybe a mile, two miles, and they were afraid that Japan sent another group of suicide friends and bomb Seattle and all through there, you know, Washington, Tacoma. And we was in the barracks called Fort Lewis, Washington. Big camp. And they put us out in the field, you know, so we could stay in the field. We stayed there about two days. When we came out of there they gave us our equipment, you know, they gave us ­every three men- well, we had four, we had one extra, we had the driver - but a jeep with an anti-aircraft gun, you know, .50 caliber and all equipment. And all we done was just patrol the city, like Tacoma, Washington. We patrolled that 34