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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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All in a Day's Work

712th tankers at a medal ceremony. Front, from left: Sam MacFarland (A Company), Dale Albee (D Company), Hank Schneider (A Company). Rear: Vladimir Kedrovsky (Headquarters)

By this point in time, I’m afraid I’ve lost track of how many epis...

8 days ago
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Handlebar Hank

An Italian box mine

“Now, what exactly happened in Binscheid?”

“All right!” Dale Albee said, as the very word Binscheid had just conjured up a critical moment of his 11 months in combat.

“This was in February?”

“I think so.”

“After the...

15 days ago
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Close Encounters of the Panzerfaust Kind

An M8 armored reconnaissance vehicle

This is Part 10 of “The Best ‘Little’ Tank Company in the E.T.O.” Here’s a synopsis in case you haven’t been following along:

The 712th Tank Battalion, with which my father served in World War 2, was a...

20 days ago
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Leading from the Middle

Dale Albee

This is Part 9 of “The Best ‘Little’ Tank Company in the E.T.O.” Here’s a synopsis in case you haven’t been following along:

The 712th Tank Battalion, with which my father served in World War 2, was an independent battalion (th...

22 days ago
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17 Tons, and What Do You Get?

The Merkers Salt Mine. 712th Tank Battalion photo

Considering that I didn’t begin interviewing World War 2 veterans until 1987, some 42 years after the war, it only makes sense that I interviewed a number of veterans who were playing hide-...

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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