An aerial view of a hangar area at RAF Upper Heyford (USAF) Written by Bob Von Bargen I was at Upper Heyford RAF Base near Oxford in England. My KC-97 air refueling combat crew was pulling an alert tour to support operations in Europe during the Cold War. Our alert crew building
written by COL William R. Licht (USA, Ret) (US Army) “There is only one ground offensive weapon in Vietnam: the Land Clearer.”
Written by Todd DePastino USAF Master Sergeant Al Claycomb has written five children's books dealing with life's big issues: loneliness, loss, faith, and friendship. Al served an astounding 44 years, from 1979 to 2023, working on, then later managing, the mighty Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, the largest aircraft in the world. But as a young
Written by Todd DePastino It’s not “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima” by Joe Rosenthal or “V-J Day in Times Square” by Alfred Eisenstaedt. But the photograph of an air crew returning from a bombing mission in World War II has become an icon of sorts since author Don Miller put it on the
Written by Todd DePastino Bill Bonnamy’s website devoted to the 319th Glider Field Artillery, 82nd Airborne Division, contains a growing treasury of information, documents, photos, and stories from and about all things 82nd Airborne. Most of the material has come from family members of those who served in the division in World War II
written by Carole Popchock While listening to VBC Greatest Generation Live programs about the Air War in World War II, I remembered a family story about the death of my father’s first cousin, Frank Ladesic. Frank Ladesic was a B-24 pilot in the Fifteenth Air Force in Italy. My family had always understood that
