Dorwin Lamkin on the USS Nevada

...to 1946 in the Pacific Theater as a Navy medical corpsman during World War II. Assigned to the USS Nevada, Lamkin was transferred to the hospital corps prior to the...

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Thomas Butler on the USS Tennessee

...the Navy for twenty-seven years, starting in 1938. He was stationed aboard the USS Tennessee in Hawaii during the attack on Pearl Harbor, served aboard minesweepers during World War II,...

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Charles Imbruglia on the USS Maryland

...Oklahoma capsized and began pulling over the Maryland. To listen to the complete interview click here: https://wisvetsmuseum.com/ohms-viewer/render.php?cachefile=OH_00062.xml More on Imbruglia: Charles Imbruglia (1921-2004) served in the Navy during World War...

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Mello Stapleton at Hickam Field

...He served in the Army Air Force with the 11th Bomb Group, 431st Bomb Squad during World War II. He was a survivor of Pearl Harbor, flew B-17Es during the...

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Floyd TeWinkel at Fort Kamehameha

...military from River Falls on June 11, 1941, for service with the US Army and served with the 295th Anti-Aircraft Artillery, Battery B and Searchlight Battalion in the Pacific Theater...

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Rosters

What You'll Find in the Roster Database The Wisconsin Veterans Museum holds rosters from Wisconsin in the Civil War through World War I. In our roster databases you will find...

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Wisconsin Veterans Museum: A Living Memorial by Dr. Richard Zeitlin

...of established veteran’s memorials. Exhibits at the G.A.R. Memorial Hall were significantly improved during the mid-1960s when Veterans Affairs Secretary John Moses, a World War II tank commander, received legislative...

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History of the Wisconsin Veterans Museum

...Exhibits at the G.A.R. Memorial Hall were significantly improved during the mid-1960s when Veterans Affairs Secretary John Moses, a World War II tank commander, received legislative approval to upgrade the...

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Beckel in IV training in AIT. WVM.OH2238

I AM NOT INVISIBLE 3.0: WOMEN VETERANS TELL THEIR STORIES

...and James “Groovy” M. Cocroft of the Military & Veterans Resource Center of the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee provide leadership and space. Next, Gene Russell with the United States Department...

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FOX VALLEY VETERANS TELL THEIR STORIES

...for several interviews from that region of Wisconsin. These Fox Valley oral history interviews range from the current day back to World War I. The museum features them in galleries,...

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