We're grateful to Barb Smith for introducing us to Art and Rose Gelbart, Holocaust survivors who joined our livestream on December 1, 2025. Barb wrote an account of their World War II experiences in the DD214 Chronicle, a print newspaper serving northern Ohio. Thank you to publisher and USMC veteran Donald Stark for giving
By Todd DePastino VBC member Sue Watson has let us know that Warrior Canine Connection (WCC) has named its latest service dog after our own Julia Parsons! Sue is WCC Area Program Manager & Service Dog Training Instructor in Pittsburgh, and she was instrumental in honoring World War II Navy WAVE Lieutenant Julia Parsons
By Todd DePastino Today, reading the Military Times, I learned that the fast-food chain Taco Bell is named after the founder, Glen Bell. I also learned that Glen Bell started cooking for large groups in the Marine Corps in World War II. Glen Bell spent most of the war in a kitchen. He cooked
By Todd DePastino The release of the movie Nuremberg coincides with the 80th anniversary of the opening of the famous Nazi War Crimes trial on November 20. The movie is a historical drama based on Jack El-Hai’s book, The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting
June 2025: D-Day veteran Warren Goss, age 100, reunites in Normandy with Simone Phillipe, age 96—the farm girl who hid him from a German patrol in 1944. by Glenn Goss In June 2025, 100-year-old D-Day veteran Warren Goss reunited with the French farm girl who had hidden him from a German patrol more than
By David Nasaw Over one million Black men and women served in a racially segregated military in World War II, separate and unequal. Fighting in every theater across the globe, Black Americans saw the war as an opportunity for advancement. In 1942, the nation’s largest black newspaper, The Pittsburgh Courier, urged readers to embrace
