Part I: Okinawa: Genesis of a Battle
...forces. Defending the island were the 100,000 Japanese soldiers of Lieutenant General Mitsuru Ushijima’s 32d Army. The defenders included veterans of fighting in China, reinforcements from Manchuria and Japan proper,...
Elizabeth O’Hara Baehr
...decided which soldiers needed to be treated there and which needed to be transported back another 100 miles to an evac (evacuation) hospital or across the channel to a station...
Month of the Military Child: Augustus Patchin and Family
...was away. In fact, he chose to follow in his father’s footsteps by volunteering for 100 days of service with the 40th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment in May 1864, while Augustus...
Part V: THE END OF THE WAR
...General MacArthur estimated 100,000 U.S. losses in the first 30 days of an invasion of the Japanese home islands, while Army planners in Washington estimated casualties as high as 1...
Suffrage Through Service: How Military Service Expanded Voting Rights
...to his parents is below. Editorial Cartoon - If you are good enough for war, you are good enough to vote. U.S. Army photo Almost 100 years prior to...
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)...
Old Abe Wisconsin’s War Eagle
...April 2, 1864 April 8- 9, 1864 April 20, 1864 April 22, 1864 April 23, 1864 April 23, 1864 May 2, 1864 May 3, 1864 May 4-6, 1864 May 8-12,...