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The Albany Report: Robert Tarpinian (Audio)
May 25, 2015
Hosted by Cecilia Tkaczyk.
A special Memorial Day interview with World War II veteran and Purple Heart recipient Robert Tarpinian of Acra, who served on aboard the USS LST-55. Tarpinian shared his stories of life aboard the Navy ship and his participation in the Allied invasion of Normandy, in June 1944. He narrowly survived Exercise Tiger, one of a series of large-scale rehearsals for the D-Day invasion that claimed the lives of 740 men. Tarpinian was interviewed at his home Wed., May 20.