← BACK TO VBC BLOG Rescued from the Tomb of the Unknown The Saga of Vietnam KIA Lt. Michael Blassie Pete Mecca 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 to account
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← BACK TO VBC BLOG Missing in Korea: The Curious Case of Major Samuel P. Logan, Jr. In honor of National POW/MIA Recognition Day, we welcome David and Mike Logan to our VBC Happy Hour to talk about their father, B-29 pilot Samuel P. Logan, Jr.,
. . George Cahill (November 5, 1925 - July 2, 2018) served with the 390th Bomb Group during World War II. He remembers always wanting to fly planes. But he didn’t think he’d become a togglier. Toggliers were enlisted bombardiers—they toggled open the bomb bay door switch. Bombardiers and navigators sat
. . Peter Zwieryznski Sr. of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania spent nearly thirty years in the Pennsylvania Air National Guard, the air force militia of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. “Every three years when my enlistment was up, I thought what the heck. Might as well do another three years,” Pete says of
