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On VBC Happy Hour in February 2021, we had a wonderful conversation for the 30th anniversary of Operation Desert Storm, otherwise known as the...
On 2 May, a British intelligence officer doing the London Daily Telegraph crossword puzzle noticed No. 17 across: “One of the U.S.” The answer, he knew,...
by James Donzella, The War HorseJune 15, 2022 James Donzella worked, for a while, as a colonel’s driver in Pleiku, Vietnam. Photo courtesy of the...
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Hand-tinted illustration from the 1870s (LOC) Memorial Day began as Decoration Day when grieving women—mothers, widows, sisters—decorated the graves of fallen servicemen in churchyards North...
Written by Dave Lozier Last year, in our fall 2021 issue of VBC Magazine, we ran a story on the Navy’s phase-out of the venerable...
Decoration Day postcard, 1908. (National Museum of American History) Decoration Day—now called Memorial Day—is a uniquely American holiday with shadowy origins. We know it began...
The saga of the Vietnam crypt of the Tomb of the Unknown is perhaps the darkest chapter of the US Department of Defense’s long-running effort...
U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, loaded with 78,000 pounds of infant formula bound for Indianapolis, May 22, 2022. (U.S. Air...
One-hundred-year-old Jim Kehl is one of the last surviving US Navy ship captains from World War II. Jim served aboard LSM-144 and LSM-145 and traveled...
Written by Galen Peterson Galen Peterson in Iraq, 2008 Galen Peterson is a foremost expert on modern tank combat, having learned the subject first-hand as...
Authors Annette Grunseth and Ruth Crocker share a common bond to Vietnam. Annette’s brother, Peter Langlois, served under Ruth’s husband, David Crocker, in the 25th...
