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By Pete Mecca Courtesy of Pete Mecca’s Veteran’s Story website archive. Mike was a spitting image of what most people believe a young Air Force...

By Todd DePastino Vietnamese teachers line up in matching dresses and take photos, recognizing International Women’s Day. Photo from VBC’s 2018 Tour of Vietnam On...

By Glenn Flickinger A review of Steven Rabalais’s General Fox Conner: Pershing’s Chief of Operations & Eisenhower’s Mentor(Casement Publishers, 2017) In 1925, no one who...

Join us for a special Greatest Generation Live WWII Roundtable on Tuesday, March 16 at 7:00pm as we discuss The Bridge on the River Kwai,...

By Ellie DePastino I’ve lived in Chicago for nearly 3 years. But every once in a while, I learn something new about Illinoisans. Such as...

Pete Mecca’s Conversation with Dick Cole, 2017 Courtesy of Pete Mecca’s Veteran’s Story website archive. You can see this interview on Pete’s site here. LT...

Join us Tuesday night at 7pm on Zoom, when we talk with Clarence “Bud” Anderson, WWII P-51 Ace, USAF Test Pilot, and Vietnam Wing Commander....

By Rick Altman Rick Altman in Vietnam, 1966 Every February 25, I think of what might have been and am grateful. I served with the...

By Brad Washabaugh, Colonel, USMC (ret) Norman Schwarzkopf photo from wikipedia.org Bright Star 89 was the dress rehearsal for Desert Storm conducted in the Oman...

By James Lutz image from rallypoint.com In the summer of 1956, after completing six weeks of Basic Training at Lackland AFB, San Antonio, Texas, I...

Image from wikipedia.org Desert Storm saw the largest assembly of war ships since WWII. You can find a list of them here. Yet, not included...

7,600 Vets Answered. Here are the 7 funniest stories (revised for clarity and language). Oscar the Grouch We had a guy that somehow got his...