| Welcome to AudioMurphy.com - World War II Oral History Audiobooks by Aaron Elson Aaron started interviewing WWII veterans more than two decades ago when he attended a reunion of his father's tank battalion. Since then, he has gathered over 600 hours of their stories and presents them here in the veterans' own voices. These are the stories that documentaries leave on the cutting room floor, that authors can't fit into popular histories. They are stories about courage and fear, about food and drink, about life and death and love and loss, about wounds and tonsillectomies, about General Patton and general confusion. |
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From Camp Pendleton to Kwajalein to Iwo Jima, Peleliu and Tinian, the interviews in this newest collection contain several poignant stories. The interview with Bob Hamant, "A Marine on Tinian," has been incorporated into this set.
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Four Marines
Nick Paciullo - MP3 or Nick Paciullo - Real Audio Jerome Auman - MP3 or Jerome Auman - Real Audio It began with a simple, straightforward question, one I've asked in a hundred different interviews over the years. "What was your rank?" The answer started out fairly simple, then quickly escalated. "Private ... Pfc. ... Corporal ... Private ... Pfc. ... Corporal!" Followed by a burst of laughter. What came next was a poignant story involving a small group of rowdy Marines having a good time in San Diego, a Congressional Medal of Honor, Iwo Jima and Kwajalein. The speaker was Nick Paciullo, whom I interviewed in 2002. I didn't realize just how poignant the story was until I edited the interview for my newest oral history audiobook, "Four Marines." It lacks the details an author might add: the weather, the sounds, the scenery, the dialogue, but to me it was just like out of a movie. I've included the story in the excerpt above. On Memorial Day in 1998, I participated in a program at a new World War II museum in Eldred, Pa., and interviewed several veterans who attended. Two of those, William M. Scheiterle and Jerome Auman, are included in this audiobook. Paciullo, a veteran of Iwo Jima who also fought in the Marianas and on Saipan and was wounded three times, was a neighbor of mine in New Jersey. The interview took place shortly before the first anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, which triggered episodes of post traumatic stress in Paciullo. In 2005, Diann Hamant of Cincinnati contacted me through my web site and asked for a recommendation as to how she could find someone to interview her father, a Marine who spent a year on the island of Tinian. A few months later I attended a reunion of the 712th Tank Battalion in Cincinnati, and conducted the interview with Diann's father myself. Because it was the first of the four interviews with Marines that I put on CD, it is, at least for the time being, also included in the audiobook titled "Four Interviews." Four Marines an audiobook on CD is $12.95 in our eBay store For more information about World War II Oral History audiobooks, please visit audiomurphy.com, home of the best war stories aloud on the Internet. |
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