On November 21, 1970, a Joint Special Operation involving Army, Air Force, and Navy forces launched a daring attempt to rescue 61 POWs being held at a North Vietnamese prison camp 23 miles northwest of Hanoi. Operation Ivory Coast/Kingpin failed to bring back any prisoners, but the attempt provided excellent lessons learned for future
< On November 13, 1942, brother Joseph, Francis, Albert, Madison, and George Sullivan all died aboard the USS Juneau (CL-52) following the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. Their deaths remain the greatest disaster to befall one family in wartime and changed the rules governing siblings serving together. Glenn Flickinger marks the grim anniversary with a
Meet TOPGUN alumnus Evan Werner and others who have experienced in real-life what the Top Gun movies made famous. TOPGUN is the world’s most elite military aviation programs, the U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons School. The Navy launched TOPGUN during the Vietnam War as air combat losses climbed. Located today at the Naval Air Station Fallon,
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
