Photos by Ed Zirkle For the second year in a row, photographer Ed Zirkle kindly traveled from Ohio to capture the action and great spirit of our Veterans Breakfast Club celebration at the Rivers Casino. This year, we had a brief lesson in Bosun's Piping, some discussion of the Korean War and subsequent defenders
Written by Bob Von Bargen I want to commend you on the superb presentation regarding “Masters of the Air” that you facilitated on Greatest Generation Live on October 10. I was on a cruise ship in the Caribbean and desperately wanted to add to the conversation regarding the airmanship cited in Harry Crosby’s recount
Written by Bob Von Bargen It was just another cargo mission in “Old Shaky.” The C-124’s engines roared as we climbed to altitude from Ramey AFB in Puerto Rico. We were enroute to Panama with an oversized load of artillery pieces for the U.S. Army in the Canal Zone. The Howitzer canons were lashed
Written by Todd DePastino Highlights of the first day of the 2024 Imperial War Museum's Duxford Air Show included a jaw-dropping and eardrum-rattling display of a Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II hovering nose up sideways. The fighter came from the Royal Air Force 207 Squadron located nearby at RAF Marham. This was a "full
Courtesy USAF veteran John Kramer written by Todd DePastino The highlight of our WWII Air Fields Tour of England earlier this month was accompanying 102-year-old WWII veteran P-47 pilot Ed Cottrell back to his old 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath. The Airmen of the 493rd Fighter Squadron
Written by Bob Von Bargen In the 1970s, one Chief Master Sergeant in the 335th Military Airlift Squadron of the Air Force Reserve’s 514th Military Airlift Wing at McGuire AFB took it upon himself to transform long, arduous, and somber air medical missions with often severely injured service members and their families into airborne
