War As My Fathers Tank Battalion Knew It
103 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★ - 7 ratingsAaron Elson went to a reunion of the 712th Tank Battalion in 1987, seven years after his father passed away. Aaron was so moved by the stories the veterans shared that he returned two reunions later with a tape recorder. The rest is history. Oral history.
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The Valiant Virgin, the Lady in Red, and the Richest Man in Town
August 28, 2022 19:06 - 1 hour - 113 MBThe 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 was Bob who said to me, "If you want stories, you've got to interview prisoners of war," and that's what got me started doing just that. Today I'd like you to meet Hal Mapes, one of those POWs. If you like what you hear, I have a modest request. Since I launched my first web site, tankbooks.com, 25 years ago, I've posted hundreds of pages of stories, inte...
episode 103 bob levine
August 20, 2022 20:56 - 1 hour - 82.4 MBBob Levine was among the first replacements in the 90th Infantry Division in Normandy. He was wounded and captured in the battle for Hill 122, and had a leg amputated by a German doctor. Decades later, with the help of historian Henri Levaufre of Perier, Bob was able to meet the family of the German physician. Bob's interview is included in my collection of prisoner of war interviews, and his story is in my book They Were All Young Kids, about Lieutenant Jim Flowers and Hill 122, which als...
The Kassel Mission: George Noorigian
June 19, 2022 23:15 - 1 hour - 93.6 MBGeorge Noorigian is one of the fliers featured in my new book, "Up Above the Clouds to Die," about the most spectacular air battle you've probably never heard of. Read an excerpt from the book at aaronelson.com or check out the "Look Inside the Book" feature at amazon. This episode is my full interview with Noorigian, which is excerpted in the book.
Episode 101 Jack Prior
March 12, 2022 18:44 - 1 hour - 89.9 MBWar 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. In 2005 I recorded this interview with Dr. Jack Prior, a battalion surgeon in the 10th Armored Division. If you've seen Band of Brothers, and who hasn't, you'll likely remember the young Belgian nurse who has a romance with an American soldier, and is killed in the shelling. The real-life nurse on whom the character is based was Renee Lemaire, the "...
A Marine on Tinian: Part 2
February 19, 2022 20:27 - 51 minutes - 70.7 MBThank 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 first book, Tanks for the Memories, now available at aaronelson.com, ebay and amazon. War As My Father's Tank Battalion is about the 712th Tank Battalion in particular and World War II in particular. Bob Hamant was a Marine who spent a year on the island of Tinian.
A Marine on Tinian Part 1
November 03, 2021 15:11 - 43 minutes - 60.6 MBFirst off, I want to thank all of the listeners who stuck with Myfatherstankbattalion through a three month hiatus while I worked on the greatly expanded third edition of Tanks for the Memories, which is now available at Amazon in paperback, hardcover and for Kindle and will soon be available on my web site. As War As My Father’s Tank Battalion approaches its 100th episode, there will be some changes in the format, where I will be interviewing historians and authors about their work, in addi...
World War II Enemies Meet Again
July 31, 2021 22:14 - 1 hour - 99 MBIn this episode, we meet Ed Hays, a B17 tail gunner who in 1998 traveled to Germany to meet the German fighter pilot who shot his plane down and who, in turn, was shot down by Ed's crew. But first a couple of announcements. I'll be exhibiting at the Greenwood Lake 2021 Air Show August 13 to 15, which is always a spectacular event. If you attend, be sure to stop by and say hello. And over the Labor Day Weekend, September 3 thru 6, I'll be exhibiting at the Naval Air Station Wildwood Museum...
A 'Guest' of the Emperor: Karnig Thomasian Part 2
July 17, 2021 22:57 - 1 hour - 127 MBWar has a way a producing iconic sayings, from "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes" at Bunker Hill in the American Revolution, to "I've not yet begun to fight" in the War of 1812, to "Retreat Hell! We just got here" at Belleau Wood in World War I, to "By the grace of god and a few Marines MacArthur returned to the Philippines" in World War II. Part 2 of my 2000 interview with Karnig Thomasian features another iconic phrase from World War II: Extract Digit, the meaning of which...
A 'guest' of the emperor
July 14, 2021 01:48 - 1 hour - 92.4 MBWar 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. Where I used to live in New Jersey there was a remarkable group of ex-prisoners of war. There was Ed Hays of Ridgewood, who traveled with his family to Berlin to meet the German fighter pilot who shot down his B-17. There was Tim Dyas, also of Ridgewood, who parachuted into the middle of the Herman Goering Panzer Division. There was Hal Mapes, the ...
Uphill Both Ways: The Great Depression
July 03, 2021 03:46 - 48 minutes - 67.7 MBThank you for listening to War As My Father's Tank Battalion Knew It, a podcast about the 712th Tank Battalion in particular and World War II in general. I'd like to give a shoutout to Naval Air Station Wildwood, which invited me to exhibit at their recent Wings & Things event, and also to the Reading, Pennsylvania World War II Weekend. Which brings me to today's episode. At Wildwood, a visitor to my display asked if any of the episodes were about the Great Depression. I said no, but the nex...
Don and Evelyn Knapp Part 2
June 25, 2021 18:36 - 49 minutes - 68.8 MBPart 2 of my 1994 interview with Don and Evelyn Knapp was quite a surprise, as it includes a discussion of my first book, Tanks for the Memories. Don passed away recently at 102 years of age. I found it interesting to hear me talking 27 years ago about my plans for the future. It would be three years before I launched my first web site. Audiobooks were on tape and not CD, and podcasting was not yet a thing. I'm Aaron Elson. Thank you for listening. The usual suspects Myfatherstankbattali...
R.I.P. Don Knapp, 102, Part 1
June 16, 2021 01:08 - 1 hour - 85.1 MBDon Knapp passed away last week. He was 102 years old. "I was no hero," Don said when I interviewed him in 1994 at the Cincinnati reunion of the 712th Tank Battalion. More than a thousand people who posted reactions and comments in the Battle of the Bulge Facebook group on the notice of his passing would beg to differ. Incidentally, it was the second time Don went viral. The first was eight years earlier when he posted a picture of himself holding a sign that said "I went golfing on my 94th ...
"So long kids, and if I never see you again, goodbye"
May 26, 2021 13:06 - 44 minutes - 61.6 MBWhile crossing the Atlantic on his way to join my father's 712th Tank Battalion as a replacement, Billy Wolfe wrote in a letter to his mother and sisters, "The ocean is so blue it looks like I could dip my pen and write with it." Those words have always stuck with me. Billy burned to death in a tank just two weeks after joining the battalion. He was 18 years old. Karnig Thomasian, a gunner on a B29 in the China-Burma-India theater, became a prisoner of the Japanese after his plane ex...
Episode 90: In the Hospital
May 21, 2021 13:56 - 1 hour - 84.3 MBDistinguished Service Cross recipient Jim Flowers lost parts of both legs in Normandy. Pfc. Bob Levine, who was following one of Flowers' tanks when he was wounded and captured, had a leg amputated by a German surgeon. Lieutenant Jim Gifford was struck by a bullet which protruded from his head near his right eye. Corporal Jim Rothschadl, Lieutenant Flowers' gunner, was badly burned after his tank burst into flames. These accounts portray a vivid picture of medical treatment during the war, a...
Omaha Beach Armageddon
May 09, 2021 03:05 - 1 hour - 89.7 MBCombat engineer Chuck Hurlbut landed on Omaha Beach in the early morning hours of D-Day. His compelling interview is included in my Oral History Audiobook "The D-Day Tapes," along with six other interviews, available in my eBay store and at oralhistoryaudiobooks.com. Speaking of D-Day, I'll be exhibiting my work at the Mid Atlantic Air Museum World War II Weekend Friday through Sunday, June 4-6 in Reading, Pennsylvania. This is a premier event and draws hundreds of re-enactors, thousands o...
Exercise Tiger: Angelo Crapanzano Part 2
April 26, 2021 16:45 - 1 hour - 86.5 MBFaced 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. Tiger Burning The usual suspects: https://myfatherstankbattalion.com h...
Exercise Tiger: Angelo Crapanzano, Part 1
April 17, 2021 21:09 - 1 hour - 84.6 MBIn 1994 I read "The Forgotten Dead," by Ken Small, about Exercise Tiger, the ill-fated practice landing for D-Day sometimes known as Slapton Sands, a stretch of beach on the English coast that resembled Utah Beach. In the middle of the night German e-boats, torpedo carrying surface boats. infiltrated the convoy and sank two fully loaded LSTs and badly damaged a third. Angelo Crapanzano was at his battle station in the auxiliary engine room of LST 507 when the torpedo struck. The photo shows...
Tank driver Charles Vorhees: Part 2
April 08, 2021 13:21 - 43 minutes - 60.3 MBOccasionally when doing an interview, I'm treated to a bit of ancillary history. Once, when I was listening to the tape of an interview with a D-Day, I was annoyed by a radio playing in an adjacent room. Then I realized the veteran's wife was listening to a basketball game, and that it was a Knicks playoff game. That was kind of cool, I thought, as it brought back memories of my years working in the sports department of the New York Post, where I began a five decade career, as a newspaper...
Charles Vorhees Part 1: The explosion at Heimboldshausen
April 04, 2021 14:51 - 55 minutes - 75.9 MBApril 3, 1945 was a tragic day in the history of the 712th Tank Battalion. A Company had just occupied the village of Heimboldshausen, Germany, and established its command post in the basement of a house facing a small railroad siding. Several rail cars were parked at the siding, on the other side of which was a wide open field. Unkbeknownst to the tankers, one rail car was filled with bags of black powder for propelling artillery; two others were empty, but fume-filled, gasoline tanker car...
Interview With a Loader: Bob Rossi Part 2
March 27, 2021 21:25 - 1 hour - 92.7 MB93-POUND GIRL IS HEROINE OF FIRE Jersey City, N.J., Dec. 30, 1937 -- (AP) -- Two score men stood by today ready to give blood transfusions to a 93-pound blond heroine of the Plaza hotel fire who stuck to her switchboard yesterday arousing guests as she beat out her blazing clothing with her hands. Among the last to flee the fire fatal to two other hotel employes, 26-year-old HELEN SULLIVAN had to run through a wall of flame in the lobby, and staggered into the street so badly burned...
"Lock and Load" Pfc. Bob Rossi
March 26, 2021 11:45 - 55 minutes - 76.7 MBWar 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. The usual suspects: https://aaronelson.com https://myfatherst...
Episode 82: Bussell
March 16, 2021 21:49 - 1 hour - 89.9 MBWhen 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 ...
A Marine on Iwo
March 06, 2021 19:29 - 1 hour - 92.1 MBWar 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 i...
Episode 80: A Medley
February 28, 2021 05:01 - 43 minutes - 60.1 MBWar As My Father's Tank Battalion Knew It is a podcast about the 712th Tank Battalion in particular and World War II in general. The first 79 episodes represent a fraction of the more than 700 hours of interviews I've conducted over the past 34 years with the men and women of the Greatest Generation. I'm Aaron Elson. If you would be interested in a modestly priced premium section of the podcast with access to exclusive special episodes, full-length versions of excerpted interviews, quizzes, ...
Mary Previte: Finding My Heroes
February 19, 2021 02:40 - 1 hour - 82.7 MBWar 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. I first heard Mary Previte speak in 1998 at a POW/MIA ceremony that ex-prisoner of war Bob Levine invited me to. Twelve years later my friend Brandon Traister invited her to address the World War Lecture Institute, a monthly program at at the Abington, Pennsylvania, Library. A little over a year ago I heard on National Public Radio that Mary had ...
The Last Hurrah: Paratrooper Ed Boccafogli, Part 1
February 07, 2021 15:40 - 54 minutes - 74.7 MBParatrooper Ed Boccafogli of Passaic, New Jersey, was preparing to return to Normandy in 1994 for the 50th anniversary of the D-Day invasion when I met him. In this riveting interview, he describes the invasion of Normandy, Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge. A full transcript of the interview can be found at tankbooks.com The audio is included in the 11-hour audiobook "The D-Day Tapes" available at Oralhistoryaudiobooks.com and on eBay. As this i...
The Last Hurrah: Paratrooper Ed Boccafogli, Part 2
February 07, 2021 15:30 - 1 hour - 95 MBParatrooper Ed Boccafogli of Passaic, New Jersey, was preparing to return to Normandy in 1994 for the 50th anniversary of the D-Day invasion when I met him. In this riveting interview, he describes the invasion of Normandy, Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge. A full transcript of the interview can be found at tankbooks.com The audio is included in the 11-hour audiobook "The D-Day Tapes" available at Oralhistoryaudiobooks.com and on eBay. As this interview ...
The Last Hurrah: Paratrooper Ed Boccafogli, Part 3
February 07, 2021 15:20 - 35 minutes - 49.3 MBParatrooper Ed Boccafogli of Passaic, New Jersey, was preparing to return to Normandy in 1994 for the 50th anniversary of the D-Day invasion when I met him. In this riveting interview, he describes the invasion of Normandy, Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge. A full transcript of the interview can be found at tankbooks.com The audio is included in the 11-hour audiobook "The D-Day Tapes" available at Oralhistoryaudiobooks.com and on eBay. As this interview ...
"Tough Guy": Jim Koerner, Part 2
January 22, 2021 15:18 - 45 minutes - 62.5 MBWar 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 episode concludes my interview with Sergeant Jim Koerner, an engineer with the 10th Armored Division who was captured during the Battle of the Bulge.
"Tough Guy": Jim Koerner, Part 1
January 18, 2021 19:55 - 35 minutes - 49 MBIn this picture, you'll notice a yellow manuscript on the table. I asked Jim Koerner about it. He said after the war he worked as a night foreman for a trucking company. He had time on his hands, and began writing down his experiences while they were fresh in his mind. He then put it in a drawer and didn't take it out for more than forty years. Its title was "Nine Lives." Read this excerpt and you'll understand why. (From the book: 9 Lives: An Oral History" (c) 1997, Aaron Elson) High...
Bastogne: 101st Airborne veteran Maurice Tydor, Part 1
January 12, 2021 15:57 - 33 minutes - 45.8 MBMaurice Tydor, a radio operator with the 101st Airborne Division, went into Normandy on an LST, into Holland on a glider, and into Bastogne on a truck. In this interview, he talks about the siege of Bastogne. This interview and several others is included in my Oral History Audiobook "D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge," available at aaronelson.com and eBay. D-Day and the Bulge The D-Day Tapes My Father's Tank Battalion, the podcast
Bastogne: Maurice Tydor, Part 2
January 12, 2021 15:46 - 34 minutes - 46.8 MBWar As My Father's Tank Battalion is a podcast about the 712th Tank Battalion in particular and World War II in general. In part 2 of this 1994 interview, Maurice Tydor, a former neighbor of mine, was a radio operator in the 101st Airborne Division during the siege of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. Resources: myfatherstankbattalion.com The official podcast site aaronelson.com My author web site Oral History Audiobooks A wide range of World War II oral history audiobooks on ...
Interview With a Tank Driver: Tony D'Arpino Part 2
January 04, 2021 17:49 - 40 minutes - 56.2 MBC Company veterans, from left, John Zimmer, Cecil Brock, Buck Hardee, Ralph Tambaro and Tony D'Arpino 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, or maybe it's about General Patton in general and the Greatest Generation in particular. Whatever it's about, every episode is a piece in the ten thousand piece jigsaw of history, in the words and voices of the people who made it. In this and the previous episod...
Interview With a Tank Driver: Tony D'Arpino Part 1
January 03, 2021 04:59 - 37 minutes - 52.1 MBTony D'Arpino War As My Father's Tank Battalion Knew It is at a crossroads, perhaps not as complex as the intersection between time and space, but rather the intersection between stagnation and growth. Please give it a comment or a review wherever you listen to podcasts, be it spotify, gaana, audible, itunes or its host, libsyn. That will help attract new listeners and help the podcast grow. Today's episode is excerpted from my interview with Tony D'Arpino. Tony was a tank driver in ...
Five 101st Airborne Veterans Talking Bastogne (Part 2)
December 18, 2020 12:30 - 37 minutes - 51.3 MBAaron Elson sat in a lounge at West Point in 1994 with five veterans of the 101st Airborne Division as they reminisced about the siege of Bastogne. This episode concludes that conversation. For a transcript of the full conversation, please read the show notes for the previous episode (Episode 68). Important resources: aaronelson.com Myfatherstankbattalion oralhistoryaudiobooks.com A Mile in Their Shoes D-Day and the Bulge The D-Day Tapes
Five 101st Airborne Veterans Talking Bastogne (Part 1)
December 15, 2020 01:41 - 48 minutes - 66.8 MBIn 1994 I was a guest at the annual "Nuts" dinner of the General Anthony McAuliffe New York-New Jersey Chapter of the 101st Airborne Division Association. Before the dinner, I sat at a table in the lounge with five of the veterans, Bill Druback, Frank Miller, Len Goodgal, John Miller and Mickey Cohen. One of them said, "He wants to hear about Bastogne." Due to the background noise which can be distracting, I'm including in the show notes a transcript of the full conversation. The transcrip...
Hitch Hiker Part 4: Conclusion
December 09, 2020 17:19 - 1 hour - 97.6 MBThis episode concludes the John Sweren story. It's a departure from my father's tank battalion but is well worth a listen, as it covers many of the universal themes of World War II: The post traumatic stress, the brushes with fate, the concept of heroism, the uplifting moments of humor in the darkest of circumstances, the importance of family and home and a future to return to. John's story of growing up on a farm with 2,000 chickens in the throes of the Great Depression, and of traveling th...
Hitch Hiker Part 3: Close Encounter With a Buzz Bomb
December 08, 2020 16:20 - 29 minutes - 40.4 MBJohn Sweren of Mesa, Arizona, was a tail gunner on a B-26 in World War II, and a former prisoner of war. In 2005, he attended a ceremony in the Normandy village of Fierville-Bray for the dedication of a memorial to Hitch Hiker, his plane, which was shot down over the village with the loss of three of its crew members while three survived. John's story is a roller coaster of emotions. His memories are both unique -- as every flier had a different set of experiences and connections with fami...
Hitch Hiker Part 2: Merry Christmas in July
December 07, 2020 02:37 - 49 minutes - 68.8 MBJohn Sweren of Mesa, Arizona, was a tail gunner on a B-26 Marauder in World War II. On July 28, 1944, while on his 58th mission, his bomber took a direct hit of flak and the tail section broke off with John in it. He survived to become a POW. John suggested the name Hitch Hiker for his B-26 and the crew approved. The nose art shows a woman modeled after Betty Grable with her thumb out and her skirt pulled up. On the ground is a suitcase with "TNT" painted on its side. Today there is a memo...
Hitch Hiker: Part 1
December 06, 2020 03:05 - 41 minutes - 57.7 MBWhen I launched War As My Father's Tank Battalion Knew It, I intended it to be mostly about tanks. But the title is misleading, and I'm the person who came up with it. About half of my work comprises interviews and conversations with veterans and families of my father's 712th Tank Battalion. , and I thought, well, there are a lot of people who are interested in tanks. But there are also people who are interested in D-Day, and prisoners of war, and Marines, and air battles, and Gold Star ...
Thanksgiving in the Rain
November 28, 2020 22:45 - 9 minutes - 12.9 MBOur nation spent Thanksgiving this year in the middle of a war that has claimed a quarter of a million lives. My father's tank battalion spent the Holidays in a different kind of war. Just as today, Thanksgiving was a special day. YXW3OeQaXxAfdvPfU63
Episode 62: Cult of Personality
November 21, 2020 22:37 - 1 hour - 105 MBThis episode of the War As My Father's Tank Battalion Knew It podcast is not about my father's 712th Tank Battalion. Rather, it is about Joseph Stalin. Ten years ago I met Ludwik Kowalski, a retired college professor who grew up in Russia and emigrated to the United States. His story is both powerful and timely in light of recent events.
Food and War
November 15, 2020 04:55 - 1 hour - 83.4 MBYou've probably heard the phrase "An army travels on its stomach." In this collection of culinary anecdotes from Aaron Elson's archive of oral history interviews, I doubt that you'll find any recipes that would appeal to the Cooking Channel.
You could die laughing: Stories of Humor and War
November 04, 2020 16:45 - 45 minutes - 63 MBIn one of Bill Mauldin's Willie and Joe cartoons, a grizzled sergeant says to his squad, "I need a volunteer what don't owe me money." Many combat veterans credited a sense of humor with helping them maintain their sanity. These are their stories.
Cannon Fodder: Arnold Brown, Part 2
November 01, 2020 16:59 - 1 hour - 89.1 MBArnold Brown enlisted in the Army as a private in 1936 and despite having only an eighth grade education became a rifle company commander in the 90th Infantry Division. My father's 712th Tank Battalion was attached to the 90th for most of the war in Europe. Myfatherstankbattalion.com ; Aaronelson.com
Arnold Brown, Part 1
October 26, 2020 01:42 - 53 minutes - 73.6 MBArnold Brown enlisted in the Army in 1936. Despite having only an eighth grade education, he rose in the ranks to become a rifle company commander in the 90th Infantry Division. He was awarded the French Croix de Guerre for the battle of Oberwampach, where his company and tanks from my father's 712th Tank Battalion withstood nine German counterattacks.
My Father's Tank Battalion: Booze and War
October 15, 2020 23:54 - 35 minutes - 48.7 MBA few years ago I began experimenting with themed audio CDs, where I would take stories from interviews with different veterans that had the same theme: Stories about jumping out of airplanes, about food on the front, about growing up in the Great Depression, about meeting General Patton, about romance and religion and strange events. In this episode of Myfatherstankbattalion, I present some excerpts from the double audio CD "Booze and War."
Lieutenant Dale Albee Part 3: Handlebar Hank
October 09, 2020 13:05 - 40 minutes - 56.6 MBThis is the 56th episode of the podcast and it seems like I'm just getting started. I want to thank all of you who have listened to more than one episode. You can find episode titles and supplemental material at myfatherstankbattalion.com and aaronelson.com. An edited transcript of the Dale Albee interview in booklet form and for Kindle is available at amazon under the title "From the Cavalry to Czechoslovakia."
Dale Albee, Part 2
October 02, 2020 15:29 - 44 minutes - 61.7 MBDale Albee enlisted in the Army in 1938, became a sergeant in the horse cavalry, earned a battlefield commission as a tanker, and led a platoon of light tanks through the Battle of the Bulge, the Siegfried Line, across Germany, and into Czechoslovakia.
Dale Albee Part 1
September 25, 2020 12:10 - 39 minutes - 54.7 MBDale Albee enlisted in the horse cavalry in 1938, earned a battlefield commission in my father's tank battalion, and led a platoon of M3 Stuart light tanks from the time he was promoted until the battalion reached Czechoslovakia at the end of the war in Europe.