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Argot: Audio Short Story Collection (Ep30): Joe Capone – That Happened

by TSVPArgot: Audio Short Stories Podcast June 25, 2021March 22, 2025Comments are Disabled

Joe Capone: That Happened On this episode of the podcast, WWII Army veteran Joe Capone of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania talks about being among the first soldiers with the 104 Infantry Division to discover concentration camps at Dora-Mittelbau (Nordhausen). <img width=”800″ height=”800″ src=”https://thesocialvoiceproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Joseph-Capone-Collage-1024×1024-800×800-1.jpg” alt=”” sizes=”100vw” /> In 1945, Joseph Capone’s outfit was the first to discover Dora-Mittelbau, …

Argot: Audio Short Story Collection (Ep30): Julia Parsons – Top Secret

by TSVPArgot: Audio Short Stories Podcast, Veteran Voices: The Oral History Podcast September 20, 2020June 25, 2021Comments are Disabled

Julia Parsons Top Secret In this episode of the podcast, WWII Navy (WAVES) veteran Julia Parsons of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania talks about her experiences as a top secret codebreaker during WWII and for decades later until the program was declassified in 1997. Julia Parsons volunteered for the Navy WAVES—“Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service”—in 1942 after …

Argot: Audio Short Story Collection (Ep29): Paul Hanna: There Was Nothing There

by TSVPArgot: Audio Short Stories Podcast, Veteran Voices: The Oral History Podcast August 6, 2020December 24, 2020Comments are Disabled

Paul Hanna There Was Nothing There In this episode of the podcast, WWII Army veteran Paul Hanna of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania talks about visiting Hiroshima shortly after the atomic bomb destroyed the city in 1945. Paul Hanna is among the very few Americans to have personally witnessed the atomic aftermath at both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Like …

Patriotic Duty

by TSVPArgot: Audio Short Stories Podcast, Veteran Voices: The Oral History Podcast October 20, 2019February 4, 2020Comments are Disabled

Fritz Ottenheimer Patriotic Duty Fritz Ottenheimer was born in Kontanz, Germany. He was able to escape Germany along with his family and come to the United States before the darkest days of the Holocaust. Speaking of the atrocities that the world–and especially Jews–suffered at the hands of Nazi Germany during World War …

Argot: Audio Short Story Collection (Ep28): Victor Miesel: In All Those Years

by TSVPArgot: Audio Short Stories Podcast October 15, 2019February 4, 2020Comments are Disabled

Victor Miesel In All Those Years In this episode of the podcast, WWII Army Air Corps veteran Victor Miesel of Tionesta, Pennsylvania talks about his coming home from the Pacific Islands at age 26. At age 80, Victor realized that his family had never asked him about his service, and so he decided to share …

Argot: Audio Short Story Collection (Ep27): That’s Loss

by TSVPArgot: Audio Short Stories Podcast July 25, 2019February 4, 2020Comments are Disabled

That’s Loss WWII Voices from Lighthouse Pointe On this episode of Argot: Audio Short Stories from the Veteran Voices of Pittsburgh Oral History Collection, we hear the voices of six WWII veterans from Lighthouse Pointe independent living community in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania–all of whom are no longer with us to share their stories and experiences. …

Argot: Audio Short Story Collection (Ep26): Vittorio Zippi

by TSVPArgot: Audio Short Stories Podcast July 4, 2019February 4, 2020Comments are Disabled

Vittorio Zippi Shoot My Cousins On this episode of Argot: Audio Short Stories from the Veteran Voices of Pittsburgh Oral History Collection, WWII veteran Vittorio Zippi of Jeannette, Pennsylvania grew up in the mostly Italian community of Crabtree and was among the first to be drafted into the army during WWII. “Would you shoot the Italians?” …

Argot: Audio Short Story Collection – Episode 07

by TSVPArgot: Audio Short Stories Podcast February 19, 2019November 30, 2021Comments are Disabled

Firepower | Anthony Marcione On this episode of Argot: Audio Short Stories from the Veteran Voices of Pittsburgh Oral History Collection, Anthony Marcione shares a story originally told on June 17, 2014 to the Veteran Voices of Pittsburgh Oral History Initiative in Rochester, Pennsylvania. This audio short story is engineered and produced by Kevin Farkas.<p …