How To Blitz A War Story

[joebloggs]

I even managed to convince him to talk into his old tape recorder. So I've got loads of tapes but not yet sure how to transfer to my PC

My dad was only 18 when he got called up, and didn't return home to UK for over 8 years.
He was with the 8th Army and the Desert Rats in the North Africa campaigns under Montgomery.
After North Africa he was moved to head the invasions of Sicily and Italy, and later for a few unfortunates to head to the western front
and join the race to Berlin.

He had loads of stories to tell and even shared how he'd fell in love in Italy, and very nearly returned to live his life there.
In the spring of 1945, when he was just 23 he was mysteriously sent to the Western Front and served directly under Patton in the race for Berlin as a member of special forces.

To the day he died he never spoke a single word about those times in special forces. We only know that he fought long and hard to return to his home in Clipston in 1948.
He was haunted by his nightmares until the day he died.

my father joined the Russian army to fight the Nazi's he was around 20 when WW2 started, that's all i know as he died when i was 11

my mother told me stories how the Nazi fighter planes flew over and that was it Lithuania was invaded, she told me how the Nazi's burnt all the Lithuanian school books and made them all learn German in school, she speaks perfect german , how she was threatened as a kid by the Nazi youth for not joining up, i could go on and on..

kids these days have no idea what our parents and grand parents went thru

if you've got a cassette player you can easily get an audio lead to connect the earphone connector on your player to the mic or audio in socket on your pc, nero or something similar can record it straight to mp3

like this should do the job peter.
http://www.expansys.com/startech-3-f...FeTMtAodBBoACw

[Terpe]

.....if you've got a cassette player you can easily get an audio lead to connect the earphone connector on your player to the mic or audio in socket on your pc, nero or something similar can record it straight to mp3

like this should do the job peter.
http://www.expansys.com/startech-3-f...FeTMtAodBBoACw

I don't have a player, but you've given me an idea.
I could easily find one at a car boot sale and the season will be here soon.
What I would need is cable that connects to the headphone socket on a cassette tape player to a USB socket on my laptop. Any ideas????

[joebloggs]

I don't have a player, but you've given me an idea.
I could easily find one at a car boot sale and the season will be here soon.
What I would need is cable that connects to the headphone socket on a cassette tape player to a USB socket on my laptop. Any ideas????

your laptop must have a mic socket ? next to a headphone socket ?
probably be red in colour.

what have you recorded the tapes on ? if not casette ? reel to reel

[Terpe]

your laptop must have a mic socket ? next to a headphone socket ?
probably be red in colour.

what have you recorded the tapes on ? if not casette ? reel to reel

Ah yes, I have a mic input , great stuff Joe.

I've got 5 cassette and 2 'Philips' reels of tape.
I remember now I threw out the old old reel-to-reel machine

The stuff he recorded during his last 3 years was all on cassette.
Yep, I chucked that machine out too.
I'll take a visit to our Maplins tomorrow maybe they have some stuff.

Thanks for your nudge and info Joe

I'll bet we both know things about war that these days still happen and are still not being adequately dealt with.........