Veterans Chronicles · Radio America
Louis Bourgault, USMC, WWII, Iwo Jima, Bougainville
·34 min·3 clips
During a supply run, Bergalt watches a ship explode from a torpedo hit, sparking a frantic escape under fire.
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A steady Marine wartime account built on memory, hardship, and plain recall.
Louis Bergalt's wartime memory comes through with the plain weight of someone who lived it. The arc from Worcester in the Depression to Pearl Harbor, then Bougainville, Guam, and Iwo Jima, gives the piece its shape, and the best moments are the ones that simply let those facts…
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Hear a Depression-era Marine trace World War II in the Pacific from hard times at home to Bougainville, Guam, and Iwo Jima.
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