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Our Spring 2021 issue of VBC Magazine features photos of 19 veterans, each with a unique story of service to tell. Hit the “+” to...
Mystery has long surrounded the Stealth Fighter F-117 Nighthawk since its official retirement in 2008. Supposedly hidden away in a remote desert boneyard, F-117s have...
Marines of Co. C, 1st Bn., 2nd Marine Div., move out on a mission after disembarking from a Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 263 (HMM-263) CH-46E...
Popeye’s father, Poop Deck Pappy (popeye.fandom.com) Like a pranking middle schooler, we asked our Navy veterans last Wednesday morning if they could tell us what...
. . BioInterviewBio Joe Wisniewski saw a lot of action while serving in the Mekong Delta region at a base maintaining 20 patrol boats from...
Thanks to Carl Rectenwald for passing along this great 2-min video of WWII B-17 and B-24 Ball Turret .50-cals firing at the Big Sandy Shoot...
Image from US Dept of Defense via history.army.mil A new film heralds the service of 855 Black women soldiers who comprised the 6888th Central Postal...
Image via National Interest You can call the 20th century the “Century of the Battleship.” Japan’s stunning defeat of Russia in 1905 relied on the...
Stewards-Mate First Class Charles Walter David Jr., US Coast Guard Photo (Wikipedia) Charles David, Jr. was a Steward’s Mate on the USCGC, Comanche in 1943....
Image from the U.S. Navy via military.com Lt. j.g. Madeline Swegle made history in July 2020 as the US Navy’s first Black female fighter pilot....
At our VBC events, we often hear veterans talk about the beautiful zipper sound of the Warthog. Anyone in ground combat over the past 30...
The heavy cruiser USS Pittsburgh should live in fame as the ship that saved the carrier USS Franklin on March 19, 1945, after a devastating...
