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One of the most imaginative, unique, and successful elements of the US war effort in Vietnam was the Mobile Riverine Force (MRF), a joint Army-Navy...
Sixty years ago, a U–2 spy plane spotted Intermediate-Range and Medium Range Ballistic Missiles on Cuba, triggering an international crisis that brought the world to...
The little-known SS Mayaguez Incident of 1975 was the last act of the Vietnam War. Coming two weeks after the Fall of Saigon, the armed...
We welcome former B-17 pilot John “Lucky” Luckadoo to Greatest Generation Live to share stories from his 25 missions over France and Germany in 1943...
Kids like Jack McLean didn’t go to Vietnam. A graduate of the elite Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., Jack decided to put off college and...
During World War II, Pan Am Airways became the most important civilian component of the US military airlift, flying over 90 million miles worldwide in...
What Went Wrong in Afghanistan? Tonight’s VBC Happy Hour guests argue that we lost the war in Afghanistan not on the battlefield, but in the...
The Inter-American Geodetic Survey (IAGS) was the most important Cold War project you’ve never heard of. Its mission was to map the vast uncharted regions...
This week in 1947, the United States Air Force was born as an independent branch of service. Listen to Air Force veterans share their reflections...
Why didn’t soldiers from WWII through Vietnam use their chin straps? We ask that question on Open Conversation. We also talk with author Carol Van Den...
Did Unconditional Surrender lengthen the war? Why did Hirohito remain on the throne? Did Roosevelt give away Poland at Yalta? Did General George Patton had...
Lt. Col. Malikah Morgan talks with us about her career, the Iraq War, her upcoming position at the Pentagon, and why she has “Grit” and...