“Flying with the 15th Air Force” Our first VBC Greatest Generation Live of 2022 features stories from 15th Air Force veterans John Bozek (B-24 navigator) and Tom Faulkner (B-24 pilot). Also joining us are historians Carole Popchock and David Snead. Sponsored by Tobacco Free Adagio Health. Simulcast to Facebook and YouTube.
In 1967. “The Pretty Kittens” band toured Vietnam with their parents' permission. Join us with drummer Dianne Reardon Cameron, founder and leader of The Pretty Kittens, on tonight’s VBC Happy Hour. Sponsored by Tobacco Free Adagio Health. Simulcast to Facebook and YouTube.
Historian Lew Paper discusses his new book In the Cauldron: Terror, Tension, and the American Ambassador’s Struggle to Avoid Pearl Harbor with Pete Mecca on VBC’s A Veteran’s Story. Sponsored by Tobacco Free Adagio Health. Simulcast to Facebook and YouTube.
The Gen. Nelson M. Walker troopship saw action in WWII and the Korean War before shipping the entire 4th Division to Vietnam in 1966. In 1997, Art and Lee Beltrone climbed aboard the gang ship and found compartments littered with hundreds of graffiti-marked bunk canvases, bulletin boards, and other historic artifacts left by its
The name “George” derives from the Greek word for “earthworker.” George Kohn’s father gave him that name expecting he would take over the family’s Wisconsin dairy farm. Instead, George escaped the bonds of earth, flying over 200 missions in the iconic F-4 fighter over Vietnam in 1970. His excellent memoir, Vector to Destiny, is
One of the greatest historians of World War II, Sir Max Hastings, joins Greatest Generation Live this morning to discuss his book, "Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942." Also joining us will be three Merchant Marine veterans who will share first-hand what it was like to fight the war as part
