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WDVA Legal Notices and Disclaimers The State of Wisconsin, Department of Veterans Affairs (WDVA) maintains its websites to give public access to Department information. While we try to keep the...
Virtual Drink & Draw: Mixed-Media Sketchbooks with special guest artist M.B. Dallocchio
...checkpoint operations, house raids, and personnel searches on Iraqi women and children for weapons and explosives. In addition to having been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times,...
June 2021 VIRTUAL! Drink & Draw with Guest Artist M.B. Dallocchio
...“Team Lioness,” the first female team that was attached to Marine infantry and Special Forces units to perform checkpoint operations, house raids, and personnel searches on Iraqi women and children...
Marcia Gates: Angel of Bataan in the Lost Battalion
The fall of the Philippines in 1942 left a deep scar on the lives of many Wisconsinites. In honor of International Nurses Day, we remember the nurses from our state...
Listening to Learn: Oral Histories from Women in Service
...a very good job of breaking them.” Of course, service wasn’t a wholly negative experience for these narrators or other female veterans. Many of them reminisce about getting along with...
Stories of a M.A.S.H. Dr. in the Buna Campaign
...gave orders for others to follow. He ran up the beach searching for survivors. With help in-tow, they located groups of wounded personnel, and carried them back to the hospital....
Operation Iraqi Freedom: Wisconsin Women Were There Proving Their Skill
...mad. So then I'd have to pull out a textbook, or look it up on the internet, or show them, "Hey, no. This is actually what the research says." And...
Our Vietnam Veterans Then and Now
...dedicated volunteer with the Wisconsin Veterans Museum. Read more. Hear Berry's Story in His Own Words (2008) Hear Berry's Story in His Own Words (2007) Gregory "Greg" Buzzell, U.S. Army...
WISCONSIN VETERANS MUSEUM LAUNCHES NEW CAMPAIGN, HOSTS BOOTH AT EAA AIRVENTURE IN OSHKOSH
...– The Wisconsin Veterans Museum in Madison has launched a four-week advertising campaign with billboards and radio focused in the Fox Cities market. The campaign, which runs through Aug. 3,...
World War II Sweethearts~Thomas F. Diener & Betty Gene Dealy
Part of the Thomas F. Diener WVM Collection Thomas F. Diener, a Milwaukee native who served in the 2129th Engineer Fire Fighting Platoon (Aviation) during World War II, and his...