A Closer Look at Operation Allies Refuge & Operation Allies Welcome

...bases in Germany and New Mexico respectively will share their accounts of facilitating the largest airlift in American history. Wisconsin Adjutant General Knapp will share stories and images from Fort...

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2nd Wisconsin Light Artillery Battery

Recruitment and Training The Second Wisconsin Light Artillery Battery (2nd Wisconsin Light Artillery Battery) was a unit that fought for the Union during the American Civil War. The battery was...

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Candlelit Cemetery Tours: Vietnam: 50 Years Later

Candlelit Cemetery Tours at Forest Hill Cemetery Tours leave every 20 minutes between the hours of 5 and 8pm On March 29, 1973, the last American combat troops were withdrawn...

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Daylight Cemetery Tours: Vietnam 50 Years Later

Daylight Cemetery Tours at Forest Hill Cemetery Tours leave every 20 minutes between the Noon and 4pm On March 29, 1973, the last American combat troops were withdrawn from Vietnam...

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Photo of Betty M. Prieve

Betty M. Prieve: A Song for the Holiday

...divorced her husband and moved to Milwaukee where she became very active in the American Legion. Photo of a Christmas decoration included in a scrapbook created by Prieve. WVM.Mss.2140.I051.06. In...

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View from the cockpit, Vietnam. WVM.1947.I522

Looking for Light

...a tour in Vietnam from July 1970 through July 1971. He was honorably discharged on July 26, 1971. Boyer was also active in anti-war activities with the American Serviceman’s Union...

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Book Talk with Steven K. Bailey

...experiences of one British POW and six American naval aviators who flew, fought, and sometimes died in the fiery skies over Hong Kong. REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-with-steven-k-bailey-tickets-866702820467?aff=oddtdtcreator This event is suitable for...

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Headshot photograph of Chester L. Krause

Chester Krause on the Liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp

...during World War II, the Wisconsin Veterans Museum presents the story of veteran Chester L. “Chet” Krause, one of the first Americans to visit the camp. On April 11, 1945,...

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