HeyJaredWorld 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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Kassel in the Clouds (opens the original)
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You must remember this (opens the original)
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Back when I was about the age the veterans I write about were signing up for what turned out to be the duration of World War 2 plus a year, I was working nights as a clerk in the sports department of the New York Post while attending the City College of New York. One of my chores was to record the stories that the sportswriters phoned in on a reel to reel tape recorder and then type them up. There was an elderly hockey writer who would phone in old stories that he wrote for a weekly column. The
Zoop (opens the original)
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Coming to America (opens the original)
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Tales of the tape (opens the original)
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