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World War II Oral History

Aaron Elson

I discuss the themes and lessons of WW2 based on my hundreds of hours of recorded interviews and conversations with World War II veterans.

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The best "little" tank company in the E.T.O.: Part 2

A D Company tank entering Perier, France on July 27, 1944. Photo courtesy of Christian Levaufre

For Part 1, click here

The entries in the D Company, 712th Tank Battalion log for most of the next two weeks are missing, but the battali...

10 days ago
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The best "little" tank company in the E.T.O.

Members of D Company, 712th Tank Battalion, in Normandy, July 1944.

Part 1

“The Best ‘Little’ Tank Company in the E.T.O.” That’s the working title of my newest project. It’s about D Company, 712th Tank Battalion, comprising three plat...

14 days ago
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A quiet, early dawn

Jim Rothschadl. (Note the 10th Armored Division patch. The 712th Tank Battalion was broken out of the 10th as an independent battalion in 1943.)

12 July, 1944

When morning came, the 12th, it was a quiet, early dawn. Everything was qui...

19 days ago
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You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. Or do you?

Now they’re making a movie, “Pressure,” about the guy who said “Looks like you’re gonna need a bigger umbrella” and convinced the Allies to postpone the invasion of Normandy for 24 hours. Ironically, it’s coming out at about the same time a...

a month ago
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"Henry the Butcher" and "Scotty"

Bernie and Lenore Levine, in 1998

Henry the Butcher

Bernie Levine, a bombardier on a B-17, was a prisoner at Stalag Luft I after his plane was shot down. After returning home, he became a successful businessman, and loved the game of g...

a month ago
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    In 1987 I went to a reunion of my father's tank battalion from World War 2. I was so moved by the stories the veterans shared among themselves, yet rarely told their families, that I returned with a tape recorder. The rest is history. Oral history.

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