First Interview:

- PVT, eventually Corporal, Pasternak served in HQ and 3PL

- He believes that Joe Calabrace was a part-time M-8 driver, but mostly moved ammunition in a half-track vehicle to the front line units

- Pasternak was wounded at the Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes Forest on December 25, 1944. He recalls that it was a sunny day when all of a sudden the German panzers began firing and the shrapnel and concussion knocked him out of action

- Remembers that 30 CRT went from: Camp Blanding to Tennessee Maneuvers to Indiana Training Sessions to Boston for Deployment to England (where they landed during a bombing raid) to South of London to Southampton to Omaha Beach in Normandy

- Pasternak recalls that the 30 CRT’s three platoons did not often operate as a concentrated force, rather they were spread out

- Notes that Camp Atterbury was the location in Indiana where they trained prior to going to Boston