34 – The Vietnam Tapes of Michael A. Baronowski
The Kitchen Sisters Present
The Kitchen Sisters & Radiotopia
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🗓️ 9 November 2015
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Michael Baronowski was a 19-year-old Marine when he landed in Vietnam in 1966. He brought with him a reel-to-reel tape recorder and used it to record audio letters for his family back in Norristown, Pennsylvania. He was killed in action in 1967. Produced by Jay Allison & Christina Egloff as part of Lost & Found Sound.
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