Wisconsin In The World War

Author : Richard L. Pifer
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870207839

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The Great War Comes to Wisconsin by Richard L. Pifer Pdf

The Great War Comes to Wisconsin examines Wisconsin’s response to World War I, the first "total war" of the twentieth century, a war so large that it engaged virtually everyone. Instead of a comprehensive history of the battlefield, this book captures the homefront experience: the political debates over war policy, the worry over loved ones fighting overseas, the countless everyday sacrifices, and the impact of a wartime hysteria that drove dissent underground. It also includes the voices of soldiers from Wisconsin’s famed 32nd Division, through extensively quoted letters and newspaper accounts. Immerse yourself in the Wisconsin experience during World War I—a conflict that demonstrated America’s great capacity for sacrifice and generosity, but also for prejudice, intolerance, and injustice.

Author : Terry Frei
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-22
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780870205569

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Third Down and a War to Go by Terry Frei Pdf

On December 11, 1941, All-American football player Dave Schreiner wrote to his parents, "I'm not going to sit here snug as a bug, playing football, when others are giving their lives for their country. ... If everyone tried to stay out of it, what a fine country we'd have!" Schreiner didn't stay out of it. Neither did his Wisconsin Badger teammates, including friend and co-captain Mark "Had" Hoskins and standouts "Crazylegs" Hirsch and Pat Harder. After that legendary 1942 season, the Badgers scattered to serve, fight, and even die around the world. This fully revised edition of the popular hardcover includes follow-up research and updates about many of the '42 Badgers, plus a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Maraniss. Readers and reviewers agree: Terry Frei's heart-wrenching story of Schreiner and his band of brothers is much more than one team's tale. It's an All-American story.

Author : Betty Cowley
Publisher : Badger Books Inc.
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 187856983X

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Stalag Wisconsin by Betty Cowley Pdf

Comprehensive look inside Wisconsin's 38 branch camps that held 20,000 Nazi and Japanese prisoners of war during World War II.

Author : Michael E. Stevens,Ellen D. Goldlust-Gingrich
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015032484027

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Women Remember the War, 1941-1945 by Michael E. Stevens,Ellen D. Goldlust-Gingrich Pdf

Women Remember the War, 1941-1945 offers a brief introduction to the experiences of Wisconsin women in World War II through selections from oral history interviews in which women addressed issues concerning their wartime lives. In this volume, more than 30 women describe how they balanced their more traditional roles in the home with new demands placed on them by the biggest global conflict in history. This book provides a rich mix of insights, incorporating the perspectives of workers in factories, in offices, and on farms as well as those of wives and mothers who found their work in the home. In addition, the volume contains accounts by women who served overseas in the military and the Red Cross. These accounts provide readers with a vivid picture of how women coped with the stresses created by their daily lives and by the additional burden of worrying about loved ones fighting overseas.

Author : Paul W. Glad
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870206320

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The History of Wisconsin, Volume V by Paul W. Glad Pdf

The fifth volume in The History of Wisconsin series covers the years from the outbreak of World War I to the eve of American entry into World War II. In between, the rise of the woman's movement, the advent of universal suffrage, and the "great experiment" of Prohibition are explored, along with the contest between newly emergent labor unions and powerful business and industrial corporations. Author Paul W. Glad also investigates the Great Depression in Wisconsin and its impact on rural and urban families in the state. Photographs and maps further illustrate this volume which tells the story of one of the most exciting and stressful eras in the history of the state.

Author : Pete Barnes
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780870205484

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Richard Bong by Pete Barnes Pdf

Who would have imagined a farm boy from Wisconsin would be the greatest air hero of World War II? Richard Bong was an athletic and hard-working boy from northern Wisconsin who dreamed of flying from the first time a plane buzzed low over his family farm. When war broke out, he left behind a life of sports, deer hunting, and farm chores to fly the new P-38 Lightning for the Army Air Force. Stationed in New Guinea, Bong shot down a total of 40 Japanese flyers in under three years - beating the record of 26 set by Eddie Rickenbacker in World War I. His accomplishments won this modest pilot the title "Ace of Aces" and a Congressional Medal of Honor awarded by General MacArthur himself. Follow Bong as he navigates his way through basic training, flight school, and life on an overseas army base. Watch as he takes to the skies in his P-38 fighter jet, outflying Japanese aircraft with barrel rolls, dives, and turns. Celebrate as he meets and marries the love of his life back home in Wisconsin, and mourn as his life comes to a swift and unexpected end during an ill-fated training flight in California. Richard Bong: World War II Flying Ace is part of the Badger Biographies series for young readers. The engaging narrative is complemented by an accessible format that includes historic photographs, a glossary of terms, sidebars on life in the military, and suggestions for activities and discussion.

Author : Sarah A. Larsen,Jennifer M. Miller
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870204487

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Wisconsin Vietnam War Stories by Sarah A. Larsen,Jennifer M. Miller Pdf

A companion book to the documentary produced by Wisconsin Public Television, Wisconsin Vietnam War Stories showcases 40 first-person stories from those who fought in America's longest war. From barely-legal sons of Wisconsin to seasoned soldiers, the men and women in these pages make up a diverse collection of voices: an army chaplain who led services at Khe Sanh but never picked up a weapon; identical twin brothers who discover they are stationed at the same South Vietnam base; a Hmong refugee who fought the Secret War at age 12 in the jungles of Laos and later moved to Milwaukee; two prisoners of war whose years in captivity total almost 14; a Medal of Honor recipient; and dozens more. The stories in these pages expand beyond the borders of the war to include personal accounts of the events leading up to it, as well as the experiences of veterans as they return home to civilian life at the height of antiwar protest. Supported by original maps, photographs from the veterans' own collections, historical chapter introductions, biographies, and a comprehensive "honor roll" of Wisconsin-born soldiers who died or remain missing, Wisconsin Vietnam War Stories is an unforgettable collection and lasting tribute to our veterans.

Author : United States. Office of Civilian Defense
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Air raid wardens
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210131913

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Manual for Air Raid Wardens by United States. Office of Civilian Defense Pdf

Author : Rutherford Birchard Pixley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Wisconsin
ISBN : UOM:39015074797609

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Wisconsin in the World War by Rutherford Birchard Pixley Pdf

Author : Sara Witter Connor
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625849106

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Wisconsin's Flying Trees in World War II by Sara Witter Connor Pdf

A look at how the Wisconsin lumber industry and the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory contributed to Allied efforts in World War II. Wisconsin’s trees heard “Timber” during World War II, as the forest products industry of the Badger State played a key role in the Allied aerial campaign. It was Wisconsin that provided the material for the De Havilland Mosquito, known as the “Timber Terror,” while the CG-4A battle-ready gliders, cloaked in stealthy silence, carried the 82nd and 101st Airborne into fierce fighting throughout Europe and the Pacific. Author Sara Witter Connor follows a forgotten thread of the American war effort, celebrating the factory workers, lumberjacks, pilots, and innovative thinkers of the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory who helped win a world war with paper, wood, and glue.

Author : Frank Klement
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870206269

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Wisconsin in the Civil War by Frank Klement Pdf

The final book by Marquette University historian Frank L. Klement (1905-1994), this is a vivid chronological narrative of Wisconsin's role in the pivotal event in American history. In this volume, Klement greatly expanded his 1962 booklet on this topic, adding new material on each of Wisconsin's fifty-three infantry regiments, political and constitutional issues, soldiers voting, women and the war, and Wisconsin's black soldiers.

Author : Christopher Sturdevant
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467140300

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Cold War Wisconsin by Christopher Sturdevant Pdf

"As the Cold War gripped the world with fear of espionage and nuclear winter, everyday Wisconsinites found themselves embroiled in the struggle. For decades, the state's nuclear missiles pointed to the skies, awaiting Soviet bombers. Joseph Stalin's daughter sought refuge in the small town of Richland Center. With violence in Vietnam about to peak, a cargo ship from Kewaunee sparked a new international incident with North Korea. Manitowoc was ground zero for a Sputnik satellite crash, and four ordinary Madison youths landed on the FBI's most wanted list after the Sterling Hall Bombing. Local author and chairman of the Midwest Chapter of the Cold War Museum Chris Sturdevant shares the tales of the Badger State's role in this titanic showdown between East and West."--Back cover.

Author : Michael Lyga
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Independence (Wis.)
ISBN : 1479344850

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A Small Town Goes to War by Michael Lyga Pdf

As did all communities in America, Independence, Wisconsin, contributed heavily toward the effort of defeating the Axis during World War II. Independence is a small rural community in the west-central part of the state, and most of its young men and women had never traveled far from home before finding themselves on trains heading to basic training. They then found themselves stationed throughout the world, fighting for an ideal that some probably didn't even understand fully. Some of them did not return. Over several years in the 1990's, the author, whose father himself was an artillery officer in the Pacific Theater, interviewed and corresponded with many veterans and their families, obtaining oral histories, written histories, and other documents. He also reviewed the local newspaper, the Independence News-Wave, whose publisher, Glenn Kirkpatrick, did a magnificent job of keeping people in the "trade area" as informed as possible of the whereabouts of its young service men and women. Through 22 oral histories, 82 additional thorough biographies, and more than 175 shorter "glimpses," "A Small Town Goes To War" is the author's attempt at preserving the history of his hometown's participation in World War II. The book contains many photos and letters in their entirety. Among the stories are those of a Merrill's Marauder, a Nuremberg assistant prosecutor, POW's, a physical trainer of the Navy's first black officers, and Trempealeau County's highest decorated veteran (Distinguished Service Cross and two Silver Stars), all of whom hailed from Independence. Also included is a most bizarre story involving a member of the 1st Cavalry Division that happened thirty years after his participation in the Battle for Manila.

Author : Rutherford Birchard Pixley
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1358623570

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Wisconsin in the World War by Rutherford Birchard Pixley Pdf

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Wisconsin
ISBN : UCAL:$C14985

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Wisconsin in the Great War by Anonim Pdf