Remember Pearl Harbor
...prominent being the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor 77 years ago this December. While most of our World War II veterans’ stories began after the call to “Remember Pearl Harbor,”...
ARTHUR SZYK: AN ARTIST AT WAR AND JOHN VLOSSAK: WARTIME CARTOONS FROM CALCUTTA TWO EXHIBITS OPENING AT THE WISCONSIN VETERANS MUSEUM
...in 1940. He gained increased notoriety at the outbreak of World War II for his caricatures of Axis leaders – mainly Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler and the Emperor Hirohito. John...
WDVA to Observe Veterans Day at Ceremonies Statewide
...Kansasville AMVETS Post 911; and Speakers are WDVA Secretary Scocos and World War II U.S. Submarine veteran Wally Stenavich, former director of the Wisconsin Veterans Home in Union Grove Glen...
Native Words, Native Warriors: Native American Code Talkers
...Museum as he discusses the origins and development of Native Americans as code talkers in World War I and II, serving in Europe, Africa, and the Pacific Theaters, including recruitment,...
Madison artist Michael Hecht tells the story of Walt Whitman and his Civil War involvement through new exhibit at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum
...This is the fourth exhibit of Hecht’s exquisite knife-drawings that the Museum has displayed in the past decade. Much of Hecht’s past work deals with the Holocaust and World War...
If Dreams Come True…~The Wanserski Family
...of World War II. George, a member of the United States Naval Reserves since 1928, was called into active duty at the beginning of war in Europe and assigned to...
MEDIA ALERT: NEW EXHIBIT–”IN MY SPARE MOMENTS: THE ART OF HAROLD F. SCHMITZ”
...DURING WORLD WAR II. What: The Wisconsin Veterans Museum new art exhibit, In My Spare Moments: The Art of Harold F. Schmitz, opens to the public on March 15, 2019....
Robert C. McCoy at the Battle of Buna
...of duty to country, and service in the military was an unquestioned expectation. Having served with his father along the Mexican Border in 1916 and in France in World War...
Rose A. Kerstetter
Rose A. Kerstetter Branch: United States Army War/Conflict/Service dates: World War II, 1943-1946 Military Occupation: Secretary to senior staff LISTEN to the interview audio READ the transcript SEE the...
Sergeant Beauford T. Anderson
Born July 6, 1922, in Eagle, Wisconsin, Beauford T. Anderson had turned 19 years old by the time the U.S. entered the Second World War. He enlisted in the United...