The Life and Letters of World War I Aerial Observer Lt. Mortimer M. Lawrence – December 1917
...history of the organization from the time we gathered at Fort Sill with a lot more take-offs and then a lot of fake cables and telegrams from Pershing, Wilson, Baker,...
Poetry and Proverbs
...diary shows damage from a Confederate minie ball at the Battle of Stones River. WVM Mss 1369 The next major battle Ingersoll saw was Chickamauga, where on September 20, 1863...
Badgers and the Day of Infamy
...Arizona, was out of view. Elsewhere on Oahu, confusion reigned as the Japanese attacked other installations at Wheeler Field, Schofield Barracks, and elsewhere. Casualties streamed into Schofield’s hospital, as doctors...
Old Abe Wisconsin’s War Eagle
...Mississippi Corinth, Mississippi Tallahatchie, Mississippi March and April 1862 March 20, 1862 May 9, 1862 May 28, 1862 September 12, 1862 September 13, 1862 September 16 and 18, 1862...
Roses of No Man’s Land – Base Hospital 22
...of at the point of her enlistment in April 1918. She was assigned to Base Hospital 22. Base Hospital 22 was formed at Knowlton Hospital in Milwaukee. The doctors became...
8th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment
Organization The Eighth Wisconsin Infantry Regiment (8th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment), also known as the Eagle Regiment, mustered into the service of the United States on September 13, 1861, at Camp...
Wisconsin Was There: Desert Storm Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of Persian Gulf War, Part I
...130, and we’d get down to 100 at night, but dry heat. Extremely dry heat.” Helen Gurkow, a doctor with the 13th Evacuation Hospital Elements of the 13th Evacuation Hospital...
Generations of Service
...service family was the Beffels of Milwaukee. John was a doctor in the U.S. Army’s 22d Base Hospital during World War I, serving in France. His daughter Eulalie followed his...
Wisconsin Veterans Remember the Holocaust
...Underkofler 104th Infantry Division, U.S. Army "'We didn't know what was going on.' The heck they didn't know what was going on—" [WVM OH879] Theodore Hartridge Doctor, 66th Medical Group,...