By Charles Nesbitt US Army Nineteen-seventy-two was a year of terror in West Germany. The Red Army Faction, a left-wing extremist group also known as the Baader–Meinhof Gang, went on a rampage that began with bombings and escalated to assassinations, kidnappings, bank robberies and shoot-outs with police. In the
When Congress created Maritime Day in 1933 hardly anyone noticed. It was in the First Hundred Days of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, and all eyes were upon the alphabet-soup of agencies rolling out like new Model Bs off Ford’s assembly line: the AAA, CCC, NRA, TVA, FDIC. But designating May 22 for
For many years, National Park Service tour guide Allen McCabe has been producing the Vietnam Memorial Fact Sheet for anyone with an interest in the iconic black Wall. We share Spring 2021’s version 39B with you here. ATTEND AN EVENT SUBSCRIBE TO VBC BULLETIN
By Todd DePastino (UPI) One of the most iconic photographs of the Vietnam War, and the most iconic photograph of the Fall of Saigon, is an image of dozens of South Vietnamese being airlifted out of Saigon by a Huey Helicopter on the roof of the Pittman Building. When
By Glenn Flickinger The US Army Was Puny: When Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, the US Army consisted of 190,000 enlisted men and 14,000 officers. They were unprepared, ill-trained, ill-equipped, and not ready for Prime Time. They were also old. The average Major was 48. A quarter of all lieutenants
Courtesy of Pete Mecca’s Veteran’s Story website archive. US Coast Guard veteran Amanda Doughty grew up mostly in Georgia and Florida and recalls her father having one of the most hazardous jobs in the Navy: an underwater welder. “A ‘flash’ almost blinded him permanently when he was in Charleston, so Dad
