Oral History Interview with C. L. Pryor, December 5, 1987 Page: 29
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behind that you have your zone of communications,
and you have a lot of people there that are not
identified as combat troops. They are occupation
troops. That will be the kind of person that we'll
encounter throughout most of the rest of the war--
any direct contact.
Jones: Did you receive any abuse--verbal, kicking,
whipping, say, a bamboo stick or whatever--in trying
to whip you to get this cart off the beach and onto
the road and on down the road?
Pryor: Yes, we'll begin to experience that at this time. It
was not so much an individual assault or beating;
this is denial. We had not been fed. We had not been
given anything to eat except from these combat
troops before they moved away from the beach area
and went on into their assault positions. These
people that are in command of the beach areas, here
in the Navy and Marine Corps we know them as "beach
parties," and they are organized to get this stuff
onto the beach and then organize it in such a way to
get it to where it is supposed to go in the
interior. They have zones of action up ahead, and
they know that material from this particular vessel
is to go to a particular unit. So they have their29
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Jones, Waller F. & Pryor, Charley L. Oral History Interview with C. L. Pryor, December 5, 1987, book, December 5, 1987; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1584976/m1/31/?q=%221920-02%22: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.