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World War II Oral History

Aaron Elson
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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 Liver Snippers

William Reiff

I would often see Bill Reiff, one of two medical officers in the 712th Tank Battalion, at reunions. I recorded this impromptu interview in the hospitality room at the 1993 reunion in Orlando, Fla.

Bill Reiff: I was born July...

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“It made me laugh. It made me cry.”

Back in the day, if the day was 1994, or maybe that should be back in the year, when I was working as a copy editor at the second largest newspaper in New Jersey, I self-published my first book, “Tanks for the Memories.”

It was a labor of...

23 days ago
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11 Months in Combat With a Tank Commander/Platoon Leader

A Company, 712th Tank Battalion, veterans at the 1995 Louisville reunion. Front row from left: Pete Borsenik, Jule Braatz and Howard Olsen; back, from left: Ellsworth Howard and Dick Bengoechea.

Every picture tells a story. This particular...

a month ago
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Kassel in the Clouds

“Iron Men of the 445th - Eighth Air Force Kassel Mission 1944” Painting by aviation artist Randy Green

Sunday, Sept. 27, is the 82nd anniversary of the ill-fated Kassel Mission air battle, in which 35 B-24 Liberators flew off course, lost...

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You must remember this

Back when I was about the age the veterans I write about were signing up for what turned out to be the duration of World War 2 plus a year, I was working nights as a clerk in the sports department of the New York Post while attending the Ci...

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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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