← BACK TO VBC BLOG The Man Who Made Ike By Glenn Flickinger A review of Steven Rabalais’s General Fox Conner: Pershing’s Chief of Operations & Eisenhower’s Mentor(Casement Publishers, 2017) In 1925, no one who knew Major Dwight Eisenhower could have imagined his rise to the
← BACK TO VBC BLOG Why does everyone in Chicago have off work today? by Ellie DePastino I’ve lived in Chicago for nearly 3 years. But every once in a while, I learn something new about Illinoisans. Such as the fact that nearly the whole city
← BACK TO VBC BLOG The Story of WWII Code Breaker and Navy WAVE Julia Parsons as told to Todd DePastino The war came at a perfect time for me. I was a senior at Carnegie Tech about to graduate with a General Studies degree that
← BACK TO VBC BLOG Dick Cole: The Last Doolittle Raider Pete Mecca’s Conversation with Dick Cole, 2017 Courtesy of Pete Mecca’s Veteran’s Story website archive. You can see this interview on Pete’s site here. LT COL. RICHARD ‘DICK’ COLE AND AUTHOR PETE MECCA
← BACK TO VBC BLOG Tuesday at 7pm: The Man Chuck Yeager Called, “The Best Fighter Pilot I Ever Saw” Join us Tuesday night at 7pm on Zoom, when we talk with Clarence “Bud” Anderson, WWII P-51 Ace, USAF Test Pilot, and Vietnam Wing Commander. Over
