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All right, sir, whenever you're ready, anything that you want to say.

All right. Now, I'm going, I made out, I did made some notes, but you tell me if they're

what you need or maybe what you do not need, you just stop me if I get into an area that's

not something you want. Okay. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Okay. I enlisted in the Marine Corps

on February 10, 1943. I was 18 and a half years old. I was discharged on January 4, 1946

with a purple heart having been wounded on E.wo Jima. My training consisted of initially

at Paris Island in South Carolina. From there, I was sent to Camp LeJune in North Carolina and

put into an engineering company and eventually was assigned to Camp Pendleton in California

as part of a demolition squad. Now, I can tell you if you would like to know what the

job is of a demolition. Absolutely. We would love to hear what you did. Okay. First of all,

a demolition squad is usually made up of a flame thrower and machine guns and various

explosives. There are such things as known as a, a satchel charge, which is a pack of clay. Well,

it looks like clay. It's called C2. It's a kind of an explosive. It was the job, it was my job.

To carry a satchel charge and to see that it was used to blow up caves and bunkers and

pillboxes. The flame thrower was to protect, to close the apertures of the pillboxes so that

I could approach and anybody else could approach and get the satchel charge into

the pillbox to destroy the pillbox. We also carried what was known as a Bangalore torpedo,

which was a long pipe with explosives and was used to blow up barbed wire. We carried maybe

five or six of them so if it was a long way off, we could connect them and then blow up a pest

to get into the closer to the pillbox. That basically tells you, of course, that we will

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