For many years, National Park Service tour guide Allen McCabe has been producing the Vietnam Memorial Fact Sheet for anyone with an interest in the iconic black Wall. We share Spring 2021’s version 39B with you here. ATTEND AN EVENT SUBSCRIBE TO VBC BULLETIN
By Todd DePastino (UPI) One of the most iconic photographs of the Vietnam War, and the most iconic photograph of the Fall of Saigon, is an image of dozens of South Vietnamese being airlifted out of Saigon by a Huey Helicopter on the roof of the Pittman Building. When
By Glenn Flickinger The US Army Was Puny: When Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, the US Army consisted of 190,000 enlisted men and 14,000 officers. They were unprepared, ill-trained, ill-equipped, and not ready for Prime Time. They were also old. The average Major was 48. A quarter of all lieutenants
Courtesy of Pete Mecca’s Veteran’s Story website archive. US Coast Guard veteran Amanda Doughty grew up mostly in Georgia and Florida and recalls her father having one of the most hazardous jobs in the Navy: an underwater welder. “A ‘flash’ almost blinded him permanently when he was in Charleston, so Dad
by Harry Miller, WWII Veteran Harry Miller joined us April 19 and shared the story about how his 740th Tank Battalion captured an elusive and formidable target: a German King Tiger (Tiger Royal Mark VI) tank. Tiger 332 was the only in-tact tank of its kind captured during the war, and
By Todd DePastino The third Monday of the month is a big holiday in Massachusetts. The kids have a day off school, the Red Sox play a morning start game at Fenway, and the Boston Marathon is run (except in 2020-2021). That’s because on April 19, 1775, the “Shot Heard ‘Round
