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(interviewer)
Tell me about your time in E Company

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when you were wounded on July 7th.

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When I got wounded?

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(interviewer)
Your helmet was...

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I don’t know what the date,
but the first time,

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the first wound I had was on Hill 140
from a 88 artillery shell

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that killed my friend...
Shintani.

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He died.

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He was right next to me,
and I got wounded then the first time.

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The shell was fired from a tank.

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(interviewer)
What kind of wound was it?

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The one I had was on the leg
and on the head.

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The one on the head, had,
my helmet had a hole like that.

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When the shrapnel hit the helmet,
one side gave way

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and the thing went down,
so it scraped me over here.

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You know, when you get cut
on the face like that, it bleeds a lot.

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So when I pick up my helmet,
I want to put it on,

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but that thing cannot go on
because the metal was sticking down

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inside the helmet.

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So I had to get one rock
and pound the metal back,

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and then I put it on.

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And that’s when I had my first wound,
was on the leg

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and I had a cut over here too
from the shell going down.

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(interviewer) And did you have to recover
from that, those two wounds?

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No…was no problem.

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(interviewer) You just took some time off
to recover for a little while?

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No, no.

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(interviewer)
No? Oh, just continued on.

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I think I went to the hospital,
general hospital.

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They operated on my leg,
take out the shrapnel,

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but over here,
was just sew up the wound over here.

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That was all,
because never had the metal inside.

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Just something like a scratch wound, eh?