Oral History Audiobooks

Aaron Elson went to a reunion of the 712th Tank Battalion, with which his father served, in 1987. Two years later, he went to another reunion with a tape recorder. He's been preserving veterans' stories ever since.

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Sunday, August 28, 2022

The Valiant Virgin, the Lady in Red, and the Richest Man in Town

The most recent episode of War As My Father's Tank Battalion Knew It was about Bob Levine, who recently passed away at the age of 97. It...

Saturday, August 20, 2022

episode 103 bob levine

Podcast: Lieutenant Tarr's Platoon

Sunday, June 19, 2022

The Kassel Mission: George Noorigian

George Noorigian is one of the fliers featured in my new book, "Up Above the Clouds to Die," about the most spectacular air bat...

Saturday, March 12, 2022

Episode 101 Jack Prior

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...

Saturday, February 19, 2022

A Marine on Tinian: Part 2

Thank you for sticking with War As My Father's Tank Battalion Knew It for the past three months while I was rewriting and expanding my f...

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Aaron Elson: Aaron Elson went to a reunion of the 712th Tank Battalion in 1987. He was so moved by the stories he heard from veterans of the unit with which his father served that he returned two reunions later with a tape recorder. The rest is history. Oral history.

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