Suffrage Through Service: How Military Service Expanded Voting Rights
...movement was the large number of 18, 19, and 20 year olds serving in the military during the Vietnam War who could not legally vote. Jerry Paul, a Marine helicopter...
Lieutenant John D. Winner
...a week, that number had multiplied to 100,000. WVM.1222.I008.02 | Photograph of “The bread pile for PWs” from the album of John Winner, taken during May 1945 at Dietersheim and...
Curator Conversation: The 30th Anniversary of Operation Desert Storm
...air campaign and the 100-hour land war. Thirty years ago, on February 24, 1991, the final phase of Operation Desert Storm began with the launch of a massive coalition ground...
Overhead at Omaha Beach with D-Day Flier Leonard Schutta
...many of this portion of the preparatory bombardment prior to the landings missed their targets, dropping their bombs too far inland or, in the case of 100 of the 500...
WISCONSIN VETERANS MUSEUM TO RE-OPEN JULY 1
WISCONSIN VETERANS MUSEUM TO RE-OPEN JULY 1 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WISCONSIN VETERANS MUSEUM TO RE-OPEN JULY 1 New Exhibits to Highlight Diversity MADISON (June 8, 2021)...
2nd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment
...May 3, 1861, for "500,000 men." They left the State on June 20, and arrived in Washington, D.C. on June 25. Afterwards, until the regiment was mustered out, the Second...
2nd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment
...May 3, 1861, for "500,000 men." They left the State on June 20, and arrived in Washington, D.C. on June 25. Afterwards, until the regiment was mustered out, the Second...
20th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment
...reached Madison on July 30, and was disbanded on August 9, 1865. Casualties The Twentieth Wisconsin Infantry Regiment lost 5 officers and 100 men to mortal wounds, along with...
WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS HOSTS “RETURN TO CAMP RANDALL” CIVIL WAR ENCAMPMENT AND MONUMENT DEDICATION
June 29, 2015 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MADISON, Wis. (June 29, 2015) – The Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs today announced that it will host “The Return to Camp Randall,”...
MEDIA ALERT FOR SATURDAY, JULY 18: WI DEPT. OF VETERANS AFFAIRS HOSTS “THE RETURN TO CAMP RANDALL” CIVIL WAR EVENT
July 1, 2015 Event features Civil War encampment, Union re-enactors and new monument unveiling WHAT: “THE RETURN TO CAMP RANDALL” CIVIL WAR ENCAMPMENT AND MONUMENT DEDICATION WHEN: SATURDAY, JULY 18...