Memoirs

Bob von Bargen Colonel, USAF Retired A memoir of VJ Day (August 15, 1945) ...

John Richey – During the mid 1960’s it was very difficult to recruit flying personnel for the Air Force Reserve ...

written by Bob Von Bargen My experience with the US Air Force Strategic Air Command, or SAC, began in January ...

A memoir by Colonel Bob von Bargen, USAF Retired I reported to Pease AFB in New Hampshire in January 1960 ...

I attended Air Force ROTC Summer Camp at Ethan Allen Air Force Base near Burlington, Vermont during the summer of ...

RETREAT It was January 1961 and I was in the Visiting Officers Quarters (VOQ) at Goose Bay, Labrador. My crew ...

Prologue The Boeing Stratocruiser was used by Pan American Airways from 1948 until the early 1960’s. The military version was ...

Some years ago my wife, Ellen, and I were members of a local travel club. The Fifty Plus Club was ...

National Medal of Honor Day was established in 1990, when then-President George H.W. Bush signed legislation designating March 25th as ...

The story of the B17 “Chow-hound” continues 75 years after the plane was downed in Lonlay l’Abbaye, France. The families ...