Thank a Veteran! Do you know a veteran in the Pittsburgh area who is making a difference in the community? Nominations are now open for the following two prestigious awards: 2023 Pittsburgh Veteran of the Year This award recognizes a veteran from southwestern Pennsylvania who exemplifies the finest qualities of our military and who gives selflessly
Efforts are underway to fly Great Britain's only Douglas C-54 Skymaster to Germany in 2024 for the 75th Anniversary of the Berlin Airlift. The Skymaster, serial number 56498, flew in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War before being struck from the list of military aircraft in 1972. Now, the British
Written By Ray Voith Ray Voith invites everyone who came of age during the Vietnam War to share their stories of that tumultuous period. You can do so by contacting him through his website or by emailing him ray.voith@att.net. The Asian-inspired fieldstone seminary at Maryknoll, a hill on the outskirts of Ossining, N.Y.
Written by Bill Moran At our last Veterans Breakfast Club event, we talked about the uses and abuses of the M1 steel pot helmet, which was standard issue from 1941-1985. After the event, Vietnam veteran Bill Moran, who served in the 199th Light Infantry Brigade (B Co, 5th Bn, 12 Inf) from October 1969
Written by Todd DePastino The Inter-American Geodetic Survey (IAGS) was the most important Cold War project you’ve never heard of. Its mission was to map the vast uncharted regions of Latin American . . . and collect on-the-ground intelligence in the process. Bad maps lose wars. Napoleon might have triumphed at Waterloo if he'd
The US Air Force turns 75 on September 18, the date when the Air Force formally separated from the US Army under the terms of the National Security Act of 1947. But if you really want to trace the origins of America's air power, you need to go back to the Civil War and
