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written by Todd DePastino Last month, in preparation for our 2023 VBC Vietnam Trip, we launched a series of talks and conversations around the history...
Robert J. Dvorchak has been awarded the 2023 silver medal for writing in the history category of the annual competition held by the Military Writers...
written by Todd DePastino The September 18 History Museum in Shenyang (陳炬燵, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons) On September 18, 1931, the first seeds...
written by George Dvorznak Memory can be tricky. Sometimes, past experiences lay dormant, out of reach, only to come forth in a rush of vivid...
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...
