Joining VBC Happy Hour will be USS Pueblo veterans and POWs Rick Rogala and John Mitchell who were captured in 1968 and held for 11 months in North Korea. Author Jack Cheevers will also be on hand to give the broader history of the Pueblo crisis, which rocked the Lyndon Johnson White House as
“Why Did I Survive?” is a question that haunts many combat veterans, including Col. Joe Tedeschi. On October 4, 1966, the C7-A Caribou Joe was on crashed into Hon Cong Mountain near An Khe. Joe survived and would spend many years searching for answers to the question. Sponsored by Tobacco Free Adagio Health. Simulcast
“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
