John Homan joined the Army Air Forces after the attack on Pearl Harbor. By 1944, he found himself co-piloting a B-24 Liberator over Nazi Germany, facing the dangers of deadly flak bursts and enemy fighters. His first-hand narrative written with expert WWII historian Jared Frederick, Into the Cold Blue, vividly portrays the perilous missions he
IWM:http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//38/media-38521/large.jpg Glenn welcomes distinguished historian Allen Packwood, director of the Churchill Archives in Cambridge to discuss Winston Churchill's wartime leadership. Our travel "Masters of the Air" tour to England in September 2024 will include a presentation by Allen Packwood at Churchill College in Cambridge. Packwood's book, "How Churchill Waged War," delves into Winston
We want to hear from Vietnam War Tunnel Rats! One of the astonishing parts of any trip to Vietnam is touring the Cu Chi Tunnels, a subterranean network built underground by the Viet Cong insurgency during the war. The discovery of vast tunnel networks northwest of Saigon in 1966 marked the beginning of a new
Why don't veterans talk with their children about war? What is the "smoking lamp," and do ships still have them? What is special about the Coast Guard? How has aircraft navigation changed? These are the types of questions we'd like to pose to our veterans tonight, during VBC Open Conversation. The idea is to encourage
Les Schrenk's story as a World War II ball turret gunner is one of courage, resilience, and unexpected humanity amidst the chaos of war. He was assigned as a ball turret gunner to the 327th Bombardment Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group of the 8th Air Force, stationed at RAF Podington. As a ball turret gunner, Schrenk
