Pat Cassetta
WWII | Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Division
Cassetta’s unit landed in Sing Tao, China to keep peace between Mao Zedong’s Chinese and Chiang Kai-shek’s Japanese. The two armies would not cooperate, and the Chinese army even kept active in the middle of the night to ensure the Americans did not advance any farther in their land. Cassetta also recalls the devastation China suffered at the hands of the Japanese at both Peking and the Great Wall. (1:47)