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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....
written by Jerry Augustine Jerry Augustine of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade in Vietnam preparing for an ambush patrol in 1966 with a 10 cent...
Viviana Hall is an Argentine-born American poet who recently sent us an unpublished poem, “For Freedom,” she wrote in response to the ongoing war in...
To paint or not to paint? That was the question for US Army and Navy Air Forces in World War II. In late 1943, the...
The letter below is excerpted from Annette Langlois Grunseth’s award-winning book, Combat and Campus: Writing Through War, which chronicles her brother Peter Langlois’s combat experience...
Written by Jim Roberts The story below is adapted from Jim Roberts’s book, MAT 111 Dong Xoai, Vietnam 1971: Stories from 33 Quebec’s Tour of...
[yotuwp type=”videos” id=”KlpzwL-37HE” ] During World War II, 43,000 young men chose not to serve in the military due to religious reasons, identifying themselves as...
By Phil Metzler In the spring 2023 issue of VBC Magazine, we ran an article about the Berlin Airlift of 1948-1949. Army veteran Phil Metzler...
Photo credit: Rose Carlo Gantner VBC member Richard Sand reports that on May 22, 2023, former Navy pilot Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) introduced House Resolution...
