← BACK TO VBC BLOG When Veterans Stormed the Capital: The March of the Bonus Army of 1932, part 1On July 28, 1932, General Douglas MacArthur, with Majors George S. Patton and Dwight D. Eisenhower, drove thousands of protesting World War I veterans out of Washington, DC, by force. The trauma of the
← BACK TO VBC BLOG In last week's VBC Bulletin, we linked to a War History Online story on drop tank canoes: detachable light-metal external fuel tanks that US fighter jets dropped by the thousands over Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. These tank halves made nifty canoes that locals still use fifty
Todd DePastino Our nation’s July 4th birthday has a fascinating history that runs deeper than backyard barbeques and gaudy fireworks. Here are Five Things You Should Know About July 4th Independence Day. 1. Independence Day should be July 2nd That’s the day the Continental Congress voted to separate from the British Empire. When John Adams
On VBC Happy Hour in February 2021, we had a wonderful conversation for the 30th anniversary of Operation Desert Storm, otherwise known as the First Persian Gulf War of 1991. Architect Randy Schumacher is chief of design for the National Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm Memorial in Washington, DC. Groundbreaking
On 2 May, a British intelligence officer doing the London Daily Telegraph crossword puzzle noticed No. 17 across: "One of the U.S." The answer, he knew, was "Utah." Ordinarily, nothing remarkable about that. But this was 1944, a month before D-Day, the largest amphibious invasion in history. And the answer to No. 17
by James Donzella, The War HorseJune 15, 2022 James Donzella worked, for a while, as a colonel’s driver in Pleiku, Vietnam. Photo courtesy of the author. Somewhere between my 14th and 15th birthdays, my dad taught me to drive a stick shift. He thought it was important that I knew how. My first car was
