Part III: Okinawa: Decision at Shuri
...had the best success, as the 96th Infantry Division cleared Conical Hill in four days of fighting and the 6th Marine Division captured Sugar Loaf Hill after five days of...
A Lesson in Resiliency From the Bataan Death March
...mainly rice and fish heads and whatever greens they grew. (13:10-13:41, 20:53-21:00) If someone thought another prisoner might die during the night, often he would stay awake all night so...
Wisconsin and the Bombing of Hiroshima
On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima became the first victim of an atomic attack. For the first time, nuclear weapons had been used in war. Wisconsin was there. Twelve days before,...
Origins of Absentee Voting
...Cavalry, wrote in a letter to his family that, unlike many of his fellow soldiers, he planned to vote for McClellan. “I shall vote for the man I think best...
Evolution of Absentee Voting from the Civil War to WWII
By Russell Horton Reference Archivist Wilbur Berget, a farmer from Gratiot, served in the 12th Armored Division in France in November 1944 and voted absentee. Read below part of his...
Madison Cemetery Tours
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Just a Few C.B.I. G.I.s Back from the War
...the newspaper printers and lost to time, perhaps the best representation of these sentiments was actually illustrated upon a bedsheet, now part of the WVM permanent collection. Finally homeward bound...
Suffrage Through Service: How Military Service Expanded Voting Rights
...movement was the large number of 18, 19, and 20 year olds serving in the military during the Vietnam War who could not legally vote. Jerry Paul, a Marine helicopter...
Lieutenant John D. Winner
...populated with 20,000 prisoners who were segregated for various reasons and could not be immediately sent home. In January 1946 Winner moved yet again when he was appointed Camp Commander...