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How Lt. Michael Blassie’s Remains Were Rescued from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Part II) By Pete Mecca Courtesy of Pete Mecca’s Veteran’s Story...
Historian Kelly Crager is director of Texas Tech’s Vietnam Center and Archive Oral History Project, but he’s also author of a fascinating book about “The...
In 1967, General William Westmoreland, head of the American war effort in Vietnam, ordered that all servicemen and women arriving in country be given a...
On this week’s Scuttlebutt, we talk about the Merchant Marine. Yes, it still exists. No, they aren’t military. And, heck no, don’t ever call them...
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...
