Written by Galen Peterson Galen Peterson in Iraq, 2008 Galen Peterson is a foremost expert on modern tank combat, having learned the subject first-hand as a tank platoon leader and company commander in Iraq. Galen is author of the memoir Strike Hard and Expect No Mercy and has lectured
Lt. James Kehl, 1946 One-hundred-year-old Jim Kehl of Pittsburgh, PA, is one of the last surviving US Navy ship captains from World War II. Jim served aboard LSM-144 and LSM-145 and traveled tens-of-thousands of miles across the Pacific in 1944 and 1945, including the invasions of the Lingayen Gulf and Okinawa. He
There Will Always Be Storms by George Zwaagstra George Zwaagstra, Royal Canadian Air Force, 1954 George Zwaagstra was born in Tjerkwerd, Friesland, the Netherlands in 1933 and emigrated to Canada in 1951. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and became a Canadian citizen in 1956. He lives in Halifax, Nova
WWII Navy WAVE codebreaker Julia Parsons is celebrating here 101st birthday today! We'll talk with Julia and celebrate her day with special guests, including the world's leading expert on the Enigma Machine, Dr. Tom Perera.
by Todd DePastino The citizens of Los Angeles were on edge. A Japanese submarine had just shelled the Ellwood Oil Fields in Santa Barbara. Press reports of the attack were muted, but rumors swirled. Was a West Coast invasion imminent? At 2:25am on February 25, 1942, the city's worst fears appeared overhead in
Today on VBC Coffee Hour we mark the 77th Anniversary of the Iwo Jima Flag Raising. Brent "Westy" Westemeyer joins us to talk about the battle, the photo, and Harold "Pie" Keller, the Marine Brent recently proved was in Joe Rosenthal's famous photo.
