Thomas' voice prompts instruct emergency personnel on when to perform such tasks as starting and stopping CPR, when to press the button to deliver a shock and when the AED is analyzing the patient. His voice was also heard as the digitized voice for Philips' HeartStart series of automated external defibrillator (AED) units used by emergency services nationwide. He was the voice heard in Paul Hardcastle's controversial 1985 song " 19," which Hardcastle composed after being inspired by a 1984 ABC documentary on the Vietnam War, entitled Vietnam Requiem which was narrated by Thomas. Peter Thomas also performed voice-overs for hundreds of television commercials, including Coca-Cola, IBM, Valvoline, NBC, United Technologies, Burger King, William Beaumont Hospital and ESPN Monday Night Football Commercials. He was the father of Peter Joseph Thomas Jr. He recorded in many European capitals and in various cities across the United States, as well. He kept an apartment in midtown Manhattan for recordings which require his actual presence there. Prior to pursuing narration full-time, he was a New York anchor for CBS News. Also using ISDN, he continues narrating at recording studios in New York City, where he worked for the bulk of his narration career. He worked out of his home and, through ISDN, at recording studios all across the country. He was involved in work with veterans, having served on the board of the National D-Day Memorial Foundation and in other similar roles. Thomas was married to Stella Thomas, formerly Stella Ford Barrineau, and lived in Naples, Florida. Thomas was also the narrator for a miniseries that ran on The Discovery Channel in 1993 entitled How the West was Lost. Thomas also participated in an HBO film on the Battle of Hürtgen Forest, in which he fought with the 1st Infantry Division (United States). Klein and Thomas met during the post-production of the documentary, and again at its premiere. Thomas' unit participated in the haunting liberation of Nordhausen. The film, produced by HBO, chronicles the personal experience of Gerda Weissman Klein, who was interned at the Nordhausen Concentration Camp when she was a teenager. Thomas received many awards for his work but cites, as one of his best, the Oscar won by a documentary he narrated, One Survivor Remembers. He was also awarded the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart, the Unit French Croix de guerre, and Belgian Fourragère. He was issued a Battle star for each of the five campaigns. With the onset of World War II he volunteered into the United States Army in 1943, after being offered an Armed Forces Radio deferment, and served with the First Infantry Division in five major campaigns, including the Battle of Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge. Within just a few years, Thomas would be hosting Big Band remotes. Since the station could not pay him, due to his age, they arranged for the sponsor, Piper Aircraft, to give him flying lessons in a Piper Cub. Thomas began his career at fourteen as an announcer on a local radio show. For example, he told his son if he were talking about horses he had to picture horses in his mind. Thomas says that his father always stressed mental images as an important speaking tool. His Welsh father, a Presbyterian minister, and his English mother, a schoolteacher from Salisbury, stressed the importance of reading, education and memorization to their son. Thomas was born in Pensacola, Florida to Dr.
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