"Podcast in a Pouch" 3 World War 2 oral history audiobooks on one flash drive

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 While I've sold hundreds of these audiobooks on CD, cars no longer come with CD players and some buyers even said they download the audio from the CDs to their computer or phone. So even though flash drives have been around since the dawn of technology, they're relatively new to me as a method of delivering the great oral histories I've recorded over the past 35 years.

 In this, my first "podcast in a pouch," I've combined three full-length audiobooks, each in its own folder on the flash driver. And if this project doesn't prove to be a flash drive in a pan, so to speak, I plan to make several others available.

Here's what you get in the initial "podcast in a pouch":

The D-Day Tapes:

Paratrooper Ed Boccafogli , 82nd Airborne Division. Ed jumped into Normandy on D-Day, was wounded at Baupte, recovered in time to see action in Holland, and narrowly escaped capture in the Battle of the Bulge.

Vincent "Mike" McKinney. A sergeant in the famed Big Red One, the 1st Infantry Division, McKinney was in the first wave on Omaha Beach. He also fought in North Africa and the Huertgen Forest. After the war he was a beat cop in Brooklyn.

Valentine Miele: A machine gunner in the Big Red One, Miele landed on Omaha Beach. He was wounded in the Huertgen Forest.

Coast Guard veteran Lou Putnoky was a radio operator on the USS Bayfield, the flagship of the Utah Beach invasion fleet. He also served in the invasions of Southern France, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. One of Lou's shipmates on the Bayfield was Yogi Berra.

Navy veteran Angelo Crapanzano , who was the only sailor to escape from the engine room when LST 507 was torpedoed in the English Channel during the ill-fated Exercise Tiger, which is also known as Slapton Sands, a practice landing for D-Day that went tragically awry.

Pfc. Patsy Giacchi was topside on LST 507 when it was torpedoed. A member of a quartermaster company, he didn't know Angelo but they met many years later, after Patsy's daughter found my interview with Angelo on the internet.

Bill Pirone , a member of the Second Cavalry Regiment who landed in Normandy and later experienced combat fatigue.

D-Day and the Bulge

Leonard Lomell was the Ranger who located the large coastal guns that were supposed to be on Pointe du Hoc on D-Day but were actually inland. Lomell sabotaged them and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.

Len Lebenson was an officer in headquarters of the 82nd Airborne Division. He went into Normandy on D-Day in  a glider that crashed.

Jack Prior was a doctor in the10th Armored Division. If you've seen Band of Brothers, you're familiar with Renee Lemaire, the "Angel of Bastogne," who in the series had a romance with an American soldier and was tragically killed. Dr. Prior was standing right outside the door on Christmas Eve when a bomb struck the building in which the real-life nurse was killed.

Maurice Tydor was in the101st Airborne Division artillery in Bastogne.

Dr. Samuel Feiler, a dentist in the 101st, jumped into Normandy on D-Day. Back in London, he met a young English woman and they began dating. They married and agreed to meet in London the next day to begin their honeymoon. Feiler was restricted to quarters and a day later jumped into Holland. Lillian Feiler referred to herself as a "kissless bride." Doc Feiler served as a medic in Bastogne.

Four veterans of the 101st Airborne Division took part in a group conversation in  the lounge at West Point prior to the  "Nuts" dinner of  the Anthony McAuliffe New York-New Jersey chapter of the division association.

Pete DeVries jumped into Normandy with the 82nd Airborne Division. He later fought in the Battle of the Bulge, and also served in Korea and Vietnam. 

Once Upon a Tank in the Battle of the Bulge

   On the evening of January 10, 1945, two Sherman tanks of the 712th Tank Battalion were sent to clear out a pocket of resistance near Wiltz, Luxembourg, during the Battle of the Bulge. The lead tank was disabled by a panzerfaust, and its lieutenant was wounded near one eye by a machine gun bullet. The crew successfully abandoned tank under fire, and the lieutenant was evacuated.

   Forty-seven years later, at a reunion of the 712th in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, four members of that five-man crew sat around a table with Aaron Elson and reconstructed the events of that day, as well as sharing some of their experiences during 11 months of combat. Only one crew member, gunner Stanley Klapkowski, was missing. In addition to the group interview, Aaron interviewed each of the four crew members individually, and visited Klapkowski at his home in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, to get his account of that day, and to verify some of the outlandish stories the other crew members told about him. These are the veterans you'll meet in this audiobook:

  • The lieutenant, Jim Gifford
  • The loader, Bob Rossi
  • The gunner, Stanley Klapkowski
  • The bow gunner/assistant driver, Ed Spahr,
  • The driver, Tony D'Arpino (Reuben Goldstein , a tank commander in a different company, sat in on the interview with D'Arpino)

 

  • Condition: Brand New
  • Book Title: Podcast in a Pouch (three audiobooks)
  • Signed: No
  • Narrative Type: Non-Fiction
  • Publisher: Oral History Audiobooks
  • Intended Audience: Adults
  • Subject: History
  • 712th Tank Battalion: D-Day, Bulge veteran firsthand accounts
  • Type: Audiobook
  • Format: CD
  • Language: English
  • Length: 10 hours on 10 CDs
  • Author: Aaron Elson
  • Personalized: No
  • Genre: History
  • Run Time: 30 hours
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Topic: World History

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