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War As My Fathers Tank Battalion Knew It
English - May 09, 2020 20:07 - 24 minutes - 34.5 MB - ★★★★ - 7 ratingsHistory Arts tanks armor generalpatton worldwarii Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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My father, Lieutenant Maurice Elson, joined the 712th Tank Battalion in July of 1944. He was wounded in Normandy and again in Germany. He died of a heart attack before I began collecting the stories of his unit, but what I learned of his brief time with the battalion launched an avalanche of stories.