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or bus or something (unintelligible), and so I got out there alright. Everything looked like it did when I left. Yeah (laughter). And ... and so ... Yeah, but ... you ... I (unintelligible). ... but you were different, right? You'd been at war for several years, so you you had changed a lot, don't you think? Yeah, I was ... I was gone about three years. I know, that's a ... I was in service about three years. Right! I spent more time in California than I did on the battlefield. Hum. And ... But do you think you kind of grew up to be a man when you were overseas or how do you feel about that? Well, I don't as I thought much about it. I was ... doing everything right that I was supposed to do. Yeah. Some things I was doing wrong, I wasn't supposed to do, but it was right (chuckles). (Laughter), yeah. To me.
Yeah. How do you feel about the Japanese? I mean, I'm sure you ... they were the enemy then and you didn't have any love for them, but how do you feel now? Oh, they're not bothering me. I was over there just a short time. I had a Japanese man's army uniform and somewhere one day I hung it out there on the line to air out, and I heard something jabbering. I'd turned around, about fifty
The National Museum of the pacific War presents an oral interview with Justin Bible. Bible joined the Army and went to radio school in California before being assigned to the 593rd Joint Assault Signal Company (JASCO). He landed in the Philippines (Leyte and Luzon) with the unit and shares a few anecdotes. He also went to Okinawa. Bible returned to the US in late 1945.
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March 17, 2017;
Fredericksburg, Texas.
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University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.;
crediting National Museum of the Pacific War/Admiral Nimitz Foundation.