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Bockscar Crew photographed on August 9, 1945, at Tinian Naval Base the day it dropped the bomb on Nagasaki. Standing from left: Maj. Charles Sweeney,...
Japanese children, seeing a Marine for the first time, eagerly reach for chocolates offered them by SSgt Henry A. Weaver, III. (National Archives) By Morton...
By Daria Sommers Lisa Rogak’s new book Propaganda Girls: the Secret War of the Women in the OSS brings to light the clandestine roles played...
Written by Todd DePastino In a special livestream with the Explorer Vessel Nautilus crew of the Ocean Exploration Trust, we heard about the crew’s recent...
Ila Cole, Navy WAVE, San Francisco I was a Specialist V, 2nd Class, Transport Airman, stationed in San Francisco in 1945. Essentially, I was an...
Hirohito, Emperor Shōwa, 1935. (Public Domain) By Todd DePastino The Atomic Bomb that destroyed Hiroshima effectively ended the Pacific War. Japan’s perfidy at Pearl Harbor...
Vietnam veteran Bill Kapito passed along the letter below written by his uncle Pfc. William Silberman, who was killed in Italy on April 12, 1945....
Written by Alex Wellerstein, Stevens Institute of Technology. Licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. The Manhattan Project was the Anglo-American effort to build nuclear...
Written by Todd DePastino WWII Royal Air Force Veteran and VBC Member Joan Gill just turned 103 years old on June 14! Joan was born...
Written by Todd DePastino On July 9, 1853, four American warships steamed into Edo Bay, their guns pointed at the seat of Japan’s ruling shogunate....
Written by Todd DePastino When we think of the Declaration of Independence, we picture a finished parchment proclaiming its famous line: “We hold these truths...
The Veterans Breakfast Club remembers with honor and gratitude Julian Moses, who passed away on May 31, 2025, at the age of 100. A Navy...
