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No one “lands” on an aircraft carrier, the saying goes. They only “crash” in a controlled manner. On January 24, a F-35C Lightning II had...
Pravda photo of Stalin giving his Bolshoi Theatre speech on February 9, 1946 by Todd DePastino On February 9, 1946, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin delivered...
Check out highlights from last week’s members-only VBC Jeopardy Night! The winners had us surprised (and impressed)! Want access to events like these? Become a...
In December 1992, 1,800 United States Marines arrived in Mogadishu, Somalia, to spearhead Operation Restore Hope. Brad Graft was one of those Marines. Hear him...
Tonight, we remember Tet with Vietnam veterans who served during 1968. Tet should be remembered like Pearl Harbor or 9/11—as a world-changing event and turning...
We mark International Holocaust Remembrace Day, the 77th anniversary of Auschwitz’s Liberation, with Scott Masters and Pinchas Gutter, a Holocaust survivor from Poland. Pinchas was...
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) William “Gus” Pagonis takes a rare break from running his 40-acre horse ranch to join our VBC Coffee Hour next week to...
News from Ukraine, which is bracing for an attack of 100,000 Russian troops massed at its border, made me think of the Ukrainian veterans who...
← BACK TO VBC BLOGWhy the B-17 Flying Fortress Was Safer Than the B-24 Liberator by Todd DePastino “What a marvelous plane that was and...
That was Navy vet Derek Sasone’s response to watching this clip Brig. Gen. Doug Satterfield talking on VBC Happy Hour on January 3. We got...
by Todd DePastino This Christmas Eve, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) will track Santa Claus’s progress around the globe, as it has since...
by Mark Gleeson Many thanks to WWII Merchant Marine veteran Mark Gleeson for submitting this story about an embarrassing incident in Boot Camp. My mother...
