Archive - World War II Oral History

January 2025

More on spark plugs

712th Tank Battalion had "the best so and so maintenance in the whole such and such army"

Jan 27 •

Drinking in the sights

A lieutenant's five days in the City of Light

Jan 22 •

A Coal Miner's Daughter

Master sergeant's widow saved up all year to attend reunions

Jan 20 •

The spark plug thief

How a sergeant kept a tank battalion rolling

Jan 18 •

Once Upon a Time in the Siegfried Line

More on Habscheid, where my last Substack subsided

Jan 12 •

Once Upon a Tank in the Battle of the Bulge

In 1992, four crew members relive that fateful Jan. 10, 1945

Jan 10 •

Follow the bouncing spittoons

And more stuff you won't read in big-picture books about WW2

Jan 1 •

December 2024

'Dad Tells the Truth Once in a While'

A burning tank, dueling tracers in the Battle of the Bulge

Dec 27, 2024 •

Chiggers Around the Scrotum

Audio clip of the (almost every) day

Dec 21, 2024 •

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