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by Todd DePastino President Harry S. Truman addressing a joint session of Congress asking for $400 million in aid to Greece and Turkey. This speech...

by Kim Mitchell James and Kim Mitchell. Photo courtesy of author. No one who joined our VBC Happy Hour with Kim Mitchell and Bao Tran...

Jack Barsky shares his stranger-than-fiction story tonight. To everyone, Jack appeared as a mild-mannered computer programmer. But in truth, he was a Russian “Illegal”—among the...

In honor of Women’s History Month, VBC Happy Hour is proud to welcome Admiral Sandy Stosz, a 40-year Coast Guard veteran and first female commandant...

There Will Always Be Storms by George Zwaagstra George Zwaagstra, Royal Canadian Air Force, 1954 George Zwaagstra was born in Tjerkwerd, Friesland, the Netherlands in...

WWII Navy WAVE codebreaker Julia Parsons is celebrating here 101st birthday today! We’ll talk with Julia and celebrate her day with special guests, including the...

by Todd DePastino The citizens of Los Angeles were on edge. A Japanese submarine had just shelled the Ellwood Oil Fields in Santa Barbara. Press reports of...

Today on VBC Coffee Hour we mark the 77th Anniversary of the Iwo Jima Flag Raising. Brent “Westy” Westemeyer joins us to talk about the...

The Marine Corps as we know it was born in WWII under the guiding vision of powerful generals you’ve probably never heard of. Historians David...

Researchers reviewed records of more than 2.5 million post-9/11 veterans and found almost 4,000 more of them had died than researchers expected. Many deaths were due to...

by Todd DePastino By February 1946, 42-year-old American diplomat George Kennan had spent almost half his life abroad. He’d started in the US Embassy in...

Thank you to John Petrus for giving us this visual tour he created of an exhibit at the Cincinnati Art Museum of the masterpieces recaptured...