This is your chance to talk with one of the few living Tuskegee Airmen, Harry Stewart. 96-year-old Lieutenant Colonel Harry Stewart Jr. flew 43 missions as a P-51 pilot in the all-Black 332nd Fighter Group, 15th Air Force. You can ask him questions about learning to fly at Tuskegee, serving in a segregated Army
Join us tonight on VBC Happy Hour to talk with three former members of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, “The Old Guard,” tasked with the duty of guarding the Tomb. We’ll hear about the selection process and training, as well as the meaning of the routine performed on the black mat behind the Tomb
Veterans Breakfast Club with John Arsenault (USMC ret.) and Thomas Gourneau (USCG), authors of LZ Sitting Duck: The Fight for FSB Argonne: The story of a small Marine unit trapped on a mountain in the extreme northwest corner of Vietnam, March 20, 1969. Also with the National Veterans Art Museum. Tune in!
Tonight we talk with three former and one current Merchant Mariners as we discuss life in the Merchant Marine in anticipation of Maritime Day on May 22! Sal Mercogliano, John Dudo, Martin Machado, and Bridget Cooney will be our guests.
Col. (Ret) Patricia Blassie joins us to talk about her 40-year Air Force career and also about her older brother, Michael, who was killed during Operation Linebacker on May 11, 1972. “The last day we took him to the airport as he left for Vietnam, Michael looked back at us and waved. We had
Air Force veteran Jake Barsottini shares memories of April 24, 1980, when a joint Special Operations force launched a hostage rescue attempt in Iran. The day ended with eight Americans dead, several destroyed aircraft, and an aborted mission. The failure helped to doom the Carter Administration and inspired a top-to-bottom rethinking of how Special
