All he did was give candy to children. But in doing so, Lt. Gail Halvorsen inadvertently launched what was perhaps the greatest publicity campaign of the Cold War. One day during the Berlin Airlift in July 1948, C-54 pilot Halvorsen saw thirty hungry children huddled outside the barbed wire at Tempelhof Airport. “When the
The VBC is excited to announce that We Left as Brothers will air on WQED-TV on Saturday, November 21 at 10:00pm. In March of 2018, eighteen members of Pittsburgh’s Veterans Breakfast Club traveled to Vietnam to tour old battlefields of what Americans called the Vietnam War. They started in Hanoi, the heart of
This week’s Scuttlebutt episode is a special one. We couldn’t cram all the good things our guests had to say about the Marine Corps into one episode, so we’re coming in hot with an OORAH! Part 2. We’re spending the bulk of the episode with James as he reacts to a video of Marines
Several years ago, WWII veteran Maury Deul declared at a breakfast, “I’ll tell you what won WWII: the deuce-and-a-half truck. That thing could go anywhere. I drove one for weeks in Italy without brakes.” Officially known as the CCKW 6X6, the deuce-and-a-half was a tactical cargo truck that could carry 2 ½ tons of
09.29.2016 Photo by Cpl. Kyle Talbot. Via Defense Visual Information Distribution Service The Marine Corps has a complicated history with women. On the one hand, the Marines accept fewer women into its ranks than any branch of service. On the other, when a mission requires specialized gender-suited tasks not suitable for men,
Here’s a an interesting, albeit useless, piece of WWII trivia: check out these photos of armored division soldiers in WWII. Notice anything unusual about them? Specifically, the way they wear their caps? Several years ago, a WWII veteran of the 13th Armored Division came to a Veterans Breakfast Club event and told a story
