The Marine Corps as we know it was born in WWII under the guiding vision of powerful generals you’ve probably never heard of. Historians David Ulbrich and Stephen Taaffe join Glenn Flickinger and VBC Greatest Generation Live to talk about them.
We mark International Holocaust Remembrace Day, the 77th anniversary of Auschwitz’s Liberation, with Scott Masters and Pinchas Gutter, a Holocaust survivor from Poland. Pinchas was just 7 years old when the war began. He and his family were captured in April 1943 and deported to Majdanek death camp, where his mother, father, and sister were
written by Mary Klepper My father recently had to stop driving, so I’ve been taking him to points south of Baltimore to visit his siblings. In July, my cousin mentioned the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia, only 30 miles from his home in Roanoke, Virginia. I was especially excited to see the memorial,
As told to Todd DePastino Julia Parsons is the last surviving codebreaker of World War II. On March 2, 2025, she will turn 104 years old. Julia served in the Navy WAVES and was assigned to the Shark Division at the Naval Communications Annex in Washington, DC, where he worked on
. . George Cahill (November 5, 1925 - July 2, 2018) served with the 390th Bomb Group during World War II. He remembers always wanting to fly planes. But he didn’t think he’d become a togglier. Toggliers were enlisted bombardiers—they toggled open the bomb bay door switch. Bombardiers and navigators sat
The VBC lost a dear friend, and the world lost a hero on Monday night when WWII Marine Corps and Iwo Jima veteran Jack Watson passed away at age 98. I encourage everyone to spend some time listening to his story. Perhaps it was in war when humans first encountered the failure of language
