By Charlotte Crosswhite The Army Security Agency (ASA) was a unique military experience. Whether you served in small assignments, large field stations, or combat situations, you always had one boot in the Army and the other in the NSA’s door. I wouldn’t call us isolated, but in many ways, we were self-isolating. You don’t
By Larry Hertzberg During the summer after my freshman year of college, I stayed at home, doing little more than hanging out with friends, drinking, shooting pool, and chasing girls. Truth be told, those were the main reasons I had gone to college in the first place. One evening in August 1963, just before
"...a riveting story of the mid-20th century bomber era and those that performed the mission." General Norton "Norty" Schwartz, USAF, Retired, former Chief of Staff, United State Air Force VBC member and retired Army officer Jim Blackwell is generously offering a free copy of his new book, Gunners! B-29 Machine Gunners in the Korean
On Veterans Day 2022, reporter Steve Mellon of the Pittsburgh Union Progress published a remarkable story about a hidden hillside cemetery in Ross Township where African American veterans rest in near-total obscurity. In his reporting, Mellon uncovered the extraordinary lives of men like Buffalo Soldier Leonard Conrad, Harlem Hellfighter Walter Jones, and Civil War
We said goodbye to one of our most memorable and famous VBC veterans, John "Lucky" Luckadoo, who was the last surviving pilot from World War II's "Bloody Hundredth" 100th Bomb Group. Luckadoo died September 1, 2025, at the age of 103. John Luckadoo survived 25 harrowing missions as a B-17 Flying Fortress pilot over
by Mary Klepper This weekend as I was driving through Virginia, I passed several Civil War battlefields. I started humming and it took a second to realize it was a song I hadn’t heard in a very long time. The song was “The Day the Sun Stood Still” on the album “The Civil War”
