(...) They thought that the Chinese cause was just. They were fighting against a barbaric enemy. But at that time, the Japanese were winning everything, and they were the first ones that really stopped the Japanese. (...)
My sympathies, of course, were with the Chinese people, because of the atrocities that I had seen in our newsreels and so forth, that the Japanese had subjected the Chinese people to. And one very impressive picture I saw was this little baby in the railway station I think in Shanghai.
The Japanese would come in and bomb right into the city. And there were many many people dead, you know, civilians, lots of, maybe a couple of hundred. You know, kids with legs blown off and arms blown off, so that’s when I really realized what wars were all about. (...)