Interview With a Loader: Bob Rossi Part 2

War As My Father's Tank Battalion Knew It is a podcast about the 712th Tank Battalion in particular and World War II in general. Excerpts from this interview with Bob Rossi appear in other episodes, especially the ones about the battle of Pfaffenheck, "Once Upon a Tank in the Battle of the Bulge," and "The Iron Cross and a Three Day Pass."

This interview is included in my oral history audiobook "Once Upon a Tank in the Battle of the Bulge." Thank you for listening.

In case you missed it:

Bob Rossi, Part 1

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Save the date: Jun 4-6 2021 I'll be in the hangar at the Mid Atlantic Air Museum World War II Weekend in Reading, Pa. It's always a great event. If you go, be sure to stop by and say hello, and tell me you've heard the podcast!

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"Lock and Load" Pfc. Bob Rossi

War As My Father's Tank Battalion Knew It is a podcast about the 712th Tank Battalion in particular and World War II in general. I'm Aaron Elson. This interview with Bob Rossi is included in my oral history audiobook "Once Upon a Tank in the Battle of the Bulge."

In this episode, there are "cameos" from my interviews with Stanley Klapkowski and Tony D'Arpino, who are mentioned in Bob's interview.

Thank you for listening.

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Episode 82: Bussell

When I began interviewing veterans of my father's tank battalion, I heard several stories about George Bussell. Forrest Dixon said Bussell was so heavy he had to shimmy into the tank. Ruby Goldstein and Bussell got into a barroom brawl in Phenix City, Alabama. Dixon told of the time Bussell drove his tank over three German motorcycles, and the time the pontoon bridge across the Saar River was shot out just behind him and Dixon yelled into the radio "Sergeant Bussell, give her hell or you'll drown!" Bussell didn't come to the reunions, so in 1993 I visited him at his home in Indianapolis.

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A Marine on Iwo

War As My Father's Tank Battalion Knew It is a podcast about the 712th Tank Battalion in particular and World War II in general. I'm Aaron Elson. Nick Paciullo enlisted in the Marines when he was 17 and fought with the 4th Marine Division on Iwo Jima, Saipan, Tinian and Kwajalein. This interview took place on Sept. 4, 2002, a week before the first anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, and both Nick and his wife, Gladys, were deeply affected by the impending date. Early in the interview, Nick describes being out with his buddies in San Diego having a good time and getting into mischief. A little further on he tells what happens to those buddies in combat.

A transcript of this conversation is available in my book Semper Four, available in print and for Kindle at amazon, and a CD of the interview is included in the oral history audiobook "Four Marines," available in my eBay store. Thank you for listening.

PS: When Nick refers to being present at a "second Pearl Harbor," he is referring to the West Loch disaster of May 21, 1944.

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