Oral History Interviews with John Plath Green, 1974 Page: 77
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Green:You bet your life I was apprehensive! I was scared
to death!
You say you were both thrilled and scared. I assume
this was at least in part due to some of the
experiences that you had had in the Philippines with
the fanaticism of the Japanese that we talked about
before, plus what you probably had read and had
been told by other people in Intelligence and this
sort of thing.
That is right. I had been briefed while I was in the
States, before I went overseas, as to the type of
combat soldier that the Japanese soldier was, that he
was a fanatical person that would rather die than
surrender.
How about the civilians? Had you heard the same sort
of information about the civilians?
No, no.
I guess you just didn't know what to expect from
the civilians.
That is right. This is another thing that scared us
on our trip from the Atsugi Airfield into the New
Grand Hotel.
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Green, John Plath. Oral History Interviews with John Plath Green, 1974, book, {1976-02-06,1976-03-01}; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1944578/m1/78/?q=%22~1~1%22~1&rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.