12 hours of veterans' stories on VBC's annual Veterans Day Vet-A-Thon! On November 11, 2022, the VBC held its second annual Vet-A-Thon, a marathon online conversation with veterans of different backgrounds, ages, and branches of service from around the country. You can check out all 12 hours, broken out by hour, on the VBC
Bill Bailey was a POW in the Hanoi Hilton in Vietnam from 1967-1973. Suzy was a Pan Am stewardess. Their love story is our subject on VBC Happy Hour. On June 28, 1967, Bill Bailey took off in his F-4B Phantom from the aircraft carrier USS Constellation (CVA-64) for a mission over North Vietnam.
In 1942, the island of New Guinea served as a hinge between the Allies to the south in Australia and the Japanese Imperial Army to the north in the Philippines. For the Allies, holding Australia and regaining the Philippines required battling Japanese forces for control of New Guinea. The campaign lasted virtually the entire
Join us for an Eerie Conversation this Halloween as we talk all things military and veteran-related. We've SCARED up these great guests: John Kramer will tell us how to analyze U-2 and SR-71 surveillance images by interpreting satellite imagery. Three-time Purple Heart recipient James McCormick will talk about the Military Order of the Purple
Jack Boeki grew up in a Jewish family in Rotterdam, Netherlands, a city devastated by infamous German terror bombings and invasion in 1940. As the Nazi occupiers began hunting Dutch Jews for transportation to concentration camps, teenage Jack went into hiding. Like Houdini slipping a straight jacket, Jack managed to escape capture at every
During the Vietnam War, almost half of Viet Cong insurgents lived and worked in the Mekong Delta, the southernmost part of Vietnam crisscrossed by 3,000 miles of canals and streams. The waterways act as river roads and support thick, often impenetrable vegetation perfect for concealing guerrilla operations. In 1967, in an effort to take
