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Once Upon a Time in the Siegfried Line
More on Habscheid, where my last Substack subsided
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Once Upon a Tank in the Battle of the Bulge
In 1992, four crew members relive that fateful Jan. 10, 1945
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Follow the bouncing spittoons
And more stuff you won't read in big-picture books about WW2
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'Dad Tells the Truth Once in a While'
A burning tank, dueling tracers in the Battle of the Bulge
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Chiggers Around the Scrotum
Audio clip of the (almost every) day
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A death in the Bulge
A tank battalion's toughest loss
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The Angel of Bastogne
A Christmas Eve tragedy during the Battle of the Bulge
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World War II Oral History
World War II Oral History
I discuss the themes and lessons of WW2 based on my hundreds of hours of recorded interviews and conversations with World War II veterans.
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