By Pete Mecca Courtesy of Pete Mecca’s Veteran’s Story website archive. Mike was a spitting image of what most people believe a young Air Force officer should look like: tall, handsome, with a hospitable grin and approachable demeanor. A 1970 graduate of the Air Force Academy, he lettered on varsity tennis
By Todd DePastino Vietnamese teachers line up in matching dresses and take photos, recognizing International Women's Day. Photo from VBC's 2018 Tour of Vietnam On our VBC trip to Vietnam in 2018, we checked into our hotel at Halong Bay on March 8. As each woman in our group entered
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 Pantheon of American Heroes. Back then, Ike still carried the whiff of his hardscrabble Kansas
Join us for a special Greatest Generation Live WWII Roundtable on Tuesday, March 16 at 7:00pm as we discuss The Bridge on the River Kwai, David Lean’s 1957 epic masterpiece about the Japanese effort to build a jungle railway in 1942-1943 using hundreds of thousands of Allied prisoners and slave laborers. Starring
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 observes a local holiday every first Monday in March in honor of the father of the American Cavalry: Casimir
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 WWII Days at Falcon Field lived up to expectations once again this past weekend. A gorgeous
