Oral History

... Footnote Violet Armstrong interview by Luke D. Sprague, September 24, 2019, OH 02172, Wisconsin Veterans Museum Oral History Collection, Madison, WI. https://wisvetsmuseum.com/ohms-viewer/render.php?cachefile=OH_02172.xml (accessed October 26, 2020). Bibliography Armstrong, Violet....

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WISCONSIN VETERANS MUSEUM ANNOUNCES 2016 LIST OF EVENTS

...SPARK! WHEN: Tuesday, Mar. 8, 2016 – 10–11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Apr. 12, 2016 – 10-11:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 10, 2016 – 10-11:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 14, 2016 – 10-11:30 a.m....

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Making History by Guest Author SSG Sonia Buchanan

...relate to being the primary care-takers for the family. It was really hard to be away from my family during the deployment. I didn’t make the decision hastily. I discussed...

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The Polar Bear Expedition by Andrea Hoffman

...3, 1919 a request was submitted to make a white polar bear on a blue field the official insignia for the ANREF. Already by June 3, 1919 a request was...

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John Garrett: A Veteran in the Spotlight

...on ammunition and everything, and we were half-way rationed and stuff. So what we did, we got into this depot at Barenthal and we would make our own pull-type devices....

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A Story of a World War II Fighter Pilot Fritz Emil Wolf

...of simulated dogfights. On December 20, 1941, he took part in the first AVG action near Kunming, China. During that battle, he shot down two Mitsubishi bombers and assisted in...

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Mess Night at the Museum

...room should be decorated to how to pass the port around the table. The Wisconsin Veterans Museum is excited to take this formal military tradition and make it our own....

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Like Angels in the Sky: A Combat Medic’s Story

...row. Sometime towards the end of September 2nd Battalion 8th Infantry Regiment finally received orders to pack up and make the move to Iraq. We arrived in Baghdad under the...

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A Veteran’s First Vehicle: Incorporating the Automobile into the Army during WWI

...War I oral history interviews. I have been tasked with using the Oral History Metadata Synchronizer in order to index these interviews and make them publicly accessible on the internet....

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John Greening: A Veteran in the Spotlight by Andrea Hoffman

...Fire Control, instead requesting to be a waist gunner and thus part of the flight crew. Since he believed he may not make it home again, he concluded it was...

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