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Exercise Tiger: Angelo Crapanzano Part 2
War As My Fathers Tank Battalion Knew It
English - April 26, 2021 16:45 - 1 hour - 86.5 MB - ★★★★ - 7 ratingsHistory Arts tanks armor generalpatton worldwarii Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Faced with a choice of joining the Army, the Marines or the Navy, Angelo Crapanzano asked his father, who served aboard a submarine tender in World War I, for advice. Join the Navy, his dad said. You'll eat well, and have a place to sleep. So Angelo joined the Navy and became a motor machinist's mate first class aboard LST 507. His father didn't tell him about torpedoes, Angelo said when I interviewed him in 1994.
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