VBC Scuttlebutt Open Conversation is a friendly, interactive gathering of veterans, friends of veterans, and history nerds where we discuss whatever aspects of military service, past or present, or the veterans community that are on our minds. Join us to swap stories, good and bad, at home and overseas, old and new. At the VBC,
We play two rounds of Jeopardy with clues based on the military experience, culture, and history. Everyone in our Zoom room can raise their hand and answer a question. Categories include Service Academies, Army Gadgets, Military Slang and more! Here are some sample clues: “This Air War first happened on June 27, 1950 between a
Historian Rona Simmons joins us to talk about a single day in World War II: October 24, 1944. Those 24 hours were the deadliest for U.S. service members during World War II. This day, however, is not widely known in the same way as events like Pearl Harbor or D-Day. It was an "average" day
VBC Scuttlebutt Open Conversation is a friendly, interactive gathering of veterans, friends of veterans, and history nerds where we discuss whatever aspects of military service, past or present, or the veterans community that are on our minds. Tonight we especially want to hear from Navy veterans in celebration of the US Navy's 249th birthday. On
Greatest Generation Live and Glenn Flickinger host a special event screening and discussion of the documentary film, The Lost Airmen of Buchenwald, about the 168 Allied pilots shot down in WWII imprisoned at Buchenwald concentration camp. Filmmaker Mike Dorsey and expert Marilyn Walton join us after the screening to talk about this largely unknown history.
We invite members of the Vietnam Women Veterans Association., who served in staff and lines positions in Vietnam, to share their stories with us. The vast majority of women in Vietnam, over 10,000, served as nurses. But our guests--among them, Pat Jernigan, Elaine James, Nancy Jurgevich--were some of the 1,000 or so other women in
