98-year-old Ken Lett flew Spitfire missions with from 1942 through D-Day to the end of the war. 96-year-old Jack Reid sailed the North Atlantic on the HMCS Longueil. 97-year-old Don White fought up the boot of Italy, then in southern France, Belgium, and Holland with the Royal Canadian Dragoons. And 97-year-old Jim Parks stayed
Jennifer and Ryan Hobbs fell in love at war in Iraq. Then, October 6, 2004, Ryan suffered a grievous wound in a roadside bomb attack that killed his passenger, one of Jennifer’s best friends. Jennifer joins us tonight on our VBC Happy Hour to talk about her and Ryan’s long road back, recounted in
Tonight, Glenn Flickinger welcomes NYT best-selling author Daniel James Brown. Dan’s latest book, "Facing The Mountain: A True Story Of Japanese American Heroes In World War II" tells the story of four Japanese-American soldiers, who volunteered for the famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team that fought in Italy, France, and Germany. It also tracks the
Retired Army Major Mike Perkins wants Sgt. Ed Eaton to receive a Medal of Honor for what he saw the 20-year-old sniper do on April 3, 1969, atop a downed Huey in the Mekong Delta. Armed with an M-16 and a broken M-14 sniper rifle, Eaton held off a platoon of Viet Cong until
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If you served overseas during the Cold War, you likely used a MARS—“Military Auxiliary (or Affiliate) Radio System”—to phone home. MARS was a network of military and amateur radio operators who created high frequency radio “phone patches” connecting servicemen and women across the world to folks back in the US. Tonight, on VBC Happy
