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written by Todd DePastino VBC member Scott Patton recently passed along this piece of family lore about his great-uncle, Army Private William “Bill” Patton, who...
Reviewed by Donn Nemchick VBC veteran Jerry Augustine published a harrowing account, with photos, of his service in 1966-1967 with B Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st...
written by Todd DePastino (LOC) “McNamara’s Line” was an ambitious attempt to prevent North Vietnamese infiltration into South Vietnam and Laos across the DMZ, which...
written by George Dvorznak Vietnam Veteran Steve Foreman emerges from a tunnel at Cu Chi during the VBC trip to Vietnam in 2018 During our...
written by Todd DePastino Cold War history cycles through our collective memory like snapshots on a slidewheel: Berlin, Cuba, Korea, Vietnam, El Salvador. Rarely included...
The VBC is excited to announce that its documentary about the return of members to Vietnam in 2018, We Left as Brothers, is now available...
Reviewed by Donn Nemchick A 20-year-old Stanley Adams was drafted in 1968 and was quickly transformed into a US Army infantry rifleman. Soon, he headed...
written by Todd DePastino “Little David” was, by measure of caliber, the largest gun ever built (tied with the British 1857 Mallet’s Mortar), and there’s...
written by Todd DePastino On August 7, 1782, George Washington created what would become known as the “Purple Heart.” It was NOT, strictly speaking, the...
VBC member and Military Historian Jeff Ballard sent this wonderful photo from the American Memorial on Guadalcanal in the Soloman Islands last week. Note the...
written by Todd DePastino Former USAF pilot Dick Westerhoff recently mentioned that when he flew the F-104 in the late 1950s, the ejection seat fired...
By Todd DePastino Do you know this Marine? We think he’s Richard L. henry, Jr., who served in the USMC Combined Action Program CAP 3-3-6....
