Lt. James Kehl, 1946 One-hundred-year-old Jim Kehl of Pittsburgh, PA, is one of the last surviving US Navy ship captains from World War II. Jim served aboard LSM-144 and LSM-145 and traveled tens-of-thousands of miles across the Pacific in 1944 and 1945, including the invasions of the Lingayen Gulf and Okinawa. He
by Todd DePastino President Harry S. Truman addressing a joint session of Congress asking for $400 million in aid to Greece and Turkey. This speech became known as the "Truman Doctrine" speech. Veterans will sometimes say, “Oh, I never served in war, only peace time.” By that, they usually
by Kim Mitchell James and Kim Mitchell. Photo courtesy of author. No one who joined our VBC Happy Hour with Kim Mitchell and Bao Tran in 2020 will ever forget their gripping story of how a South Vietnamese Marine rescued an orphaned baby from streets of Quang Tri City
There Will Always Be Storms by George Zwaagstra George Zwaagstra, Royal Canadian Air Force, 1954 George Zwaagstra was born in Tjerkwerd, Friesland, the Netherlands in 1933 and emigrated to Canada in 1951. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and became a Canadian citizen in 1956. He lives in Halifax, Nova
No one "lands" on an aircraft carrier, the saying goes. They only "crash" in a controlled manner. On January 24, a F-35C Lightning II had an uncontrolled crash-landing on the USS Carl Vinson in the South China Sea. The event wasn't reported, but someone in the Navy leaked a 51-second video that shows the flaming jet hitting
We mark International Holocaust Remembrace Day, the 77th anniversary of Auschwitz’s Liberation, with Scott Masters and Pinchas Gutter, a Holocaust survivor from Poland. Pinchas was just 7 years old when the war began. He and his family were captured in April 1943 and deported to Majdanek death camp, where his mother, father, and sister
