On the anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima, VBC Greatest Generation Live host Glenn Flickinger welcomes Marine Corps World War II historian Steve McCloud to talk about his in-depth study of Fox Company, the Pacific War’s Band of Brothers.Steve's book, Black Dragon: The Experience of a Marine Rifle Company in the Central Pacific, recounts
In honor of Black History Month, we invite Black Vietnam Veterans to share their stories of service on VBC Happy Hour. We also welcome a broader conversation about race in the military, past and present. We talk with some of these veterans as well as historian Samuel Black, author of Soul Soldiers: African Americans
The US Space Force is the youngest and least understood of the service branches. Carved out of the Air Force by passage of the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act, USSF was the first new military service since the creation of the Air Force itself in 1947. Join us for a conversation about all things Space
On the anniversary of the Tet Offensive, we talk with veterans of that crucial 1968 turning point in the Vietnam War.We’ll also talk with Vietnam veteran and author Ray Gleason, who’s compiled a “Grunt’s Dictionary” of Vietnam jargon.And get an answer once-and-for-all to the question of "What is a Warrant Officer"?Sponsored
Hollywood legend Jimmy Stewart flew twenty combat missions over Germany and France as a B-24 pilot, an experience that shaped the rest of his life. Robert Matzen, author of Mission: Jimmy Stewart and the Fight for Europe, and Janie McKirgan, President-Executive Director at The Jimmy Stewart Museum, talk with us about Stewart’s military service
During the Cold War, thousands manned remote radar stations around the world to serve early warning of possible nuclear attack by the Soviet Union. Especially Airmen served at radar installations—mostly small, mostly far from towns or air bases—throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Cold, barren, far from medical services, these radar sites presented a challenge
