Micabil Diaz Talks About His Experience in Sarajevo

...with, ah, the folks at the International War Crimes Tribunal. At that point there was an International War Crimes Tribunal. And we had to send the forensics experts to take...

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Photo of J. Birney Dibble during the Korean War

Eau Claire Veteran J. Birney Dibble Recalls Korean War

...started and there was a ruling that affected a lot of doctors, that if they’d been in seventeen months or more in the Second World War as a doctor, they...

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Headshot photograph of Chester L. Krause

Chester Krause on the Liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp

Chester L. "Chet" Krause served with the 565th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion in World War II. In honor of the 79th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp...

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Search the Wisconsin Veterans Museum’s World War I Database

Search the World War I Roster Database You can search the database by any combination of Name, City, County, Unit, Branch, or Notes. Please contact the Reference Archivist if you...

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Gather Stories of Your Family’s Veterans with Research Resources from the Wisconsin Veterans Museum

...a first name. If you have trouble finding someone in the database, please contact our Research Center for help. We do not have databases for veterans of conflicts from World...

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WISCONSIN VETERANS MUSEUM PUTS ORAL HISTORY RECORDINGS ONLINE

...efficiently enhance access to oral history online. OHMS provides users word-level search capability and a time-correlated transcript or indexed interview connecting the textual search term to the corresponding moment in...

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Wisconsin Was There Art Exhibit

Veteran Art Exhibition Opens 3/16/22

...Artists see the world differently. In World War II that unique vision strengthened the Allied campaigns and changed how war was fought. The invention of the “Target Identification Unit” by...

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Juneteenth Flag

Juneteenth: How Wisconsin Was There at the Beginning

...news of the Emancipation Proclamation to reach Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865 – roughly 90 years after those famous words were written. This holiday is an important celebration of...

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Author of New York Times Best-Seller ‘Carnage and Culture’ to Speak at Wisconsin Veterans Museum Gala

...of the West have been the most lethal and effective of any fighting forces in the world. Dr. Hanson has been featured on CNN, PBS, NPR, and his work has...

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Fellow WASPs posing together in their flight gear.

Women’s Unequaled Service

...(WR) Bronx, NY, where she is a `boot' is WAVE Apprentice Seaman Frances Bates." 1945. 80-G-183373. National Archives Identifier: 520638 Prior to World War II, the only generally accepted role...

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