Oral Historian, Author, Public Speaker
Susan RiceOutstanding, A Mile in Their Shoes I laughed and cried a little reading some of these stories. I hope that more books like this one are written before we lose them forever. I also want to say that I appreciate and am grateful for all of our armed services for the sacrifices they have […]
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Steve SilverwoodGreat unit history! Glad to read it It’s nice to have a chance to read a book where the author knows better, just gets out of the way and lets the people who were there tell their stories. Elson did a great job of organizing the stories, filling in a couple of blanks to
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James BaynhamI flew that mission I knew those guys. Aaron brings them alive now 76 years later with their own voices. Steve DYou can only live it through Oral History Anyone can write a story – but only those who were there can tell you what it was like. First hand, no literary fluff –
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One last mission (excerpt) Jerry Rutigliano: I was on my 27th mission when we got shot down. See, what happened, when I first got there you had to do 25 missions. Jimmy Doolittle took over in January or February of ’44, and my first mission was in February of ’44. We got halfway through, and
Everything was swell (excerpt) In the hospitality room at the 1994 mini reunion in Bradenton, I spoke with Ellsworth Howard, who was wounded in the Falaise Gap and didn’t return to the battalion for several months. I had been hearing a lot about censored letters, so I asked him about it. “All the mail that
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