Weinstein, Ira

Aaron Elson attended a reunion of his father's tank battalion in 1987, seven years after his dad passed away. He was so moved by the stories he heard in the hospitality room, the hotel parking lot, that he returned two reunions later with a tape recorder. He has been preserving the stories of the men and women of the "Greatest Generation" ever since, accumulating a personal archive of more than 600 hours of audiotaped interviews. He launched one of the first web sites with significant World War II content, www.tankbooks.com, in 1997. His work has been used as source material in more than two d...