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| Date: | 12 30 1948 |
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| Description: | Col. John Ehlert, headquarters, Fifth army, Milwaukee, presented "certificates of appreciation" to Joseph Jackson, executive director of the Madison and Wi... |
| Date: | 08 1900 |
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| Description: | Handwritten text on back reads: "Mr. Prescott and Mr. Damon at Old Soldier's Home, Madison, Wisc." The building behind the men appears to actually be the t... |
| Date: | 05 06 1949 |
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| Description: | Cadet Col. William K. Chipman, Madison, was presented the commandant's award for "outstanding academic, extra-curricular, military science, and leadership ... |
| Date: | 12 1947 |
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| Description: | Seven Army soldiers receiving medals from an officer. |
| Date: | 05 06 1949 |
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| Description: | Cadet William C. Bowden, also of Madison, won the Army Transportation Corps Award as the outstanding senior in the Transportation Corps. He is shown being ... |
| Date: | 09 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Malcolm McVicar's military insignia collection on display, with a United States flag, in the window of Photo Copy Service shop, 211 West Mifflin Street. |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length seated portrait of Orvin Thompson, a private in Company I, 40th Wisconsin Infantry, wearing Grand Army of the Republic uniform and a s... |
| Date: | 11 04 1947 |
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| Description: | Dr. William S. Middleton receiving the Distinguished Service Medal from Major General Edwin P. Parker for outstanding service with the Army Medical Corps i... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of General Lucius Fairchild, General E.S. Bragg, and General John Gibbon, all of the Iron Brigade. All three men wear an unidentified ribbo... |
| Date: | 12 31 1954 |
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| Description: | Truax Base commander, Col. Frederick J. Nelander, after presenting the Purple Heart and the Air Medal to Lt. Edward G. Izbicky. The airman won the decorati... |
| Date: | 04 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Receiving the American Campaign Medal from Capt. Vincent S. Dilly are First Sgt. Melvin Miller, Staff Sgt. John Ludden, Master Sgts. James Wolff and Olaf R... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of veterans of the 36th Wisconsin Regiment posed on the steps of the Wisconsin State Capital in the late 1870s. Some of the men hold drums a... |
| Date: | 08 23 1958 |
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| Description: | Lenoda Graewin pins a bar on the uniform of her fiance, James Schmitz, during the University of Wisconsin ROTC graduation ceremony at the Memorial Union. |
| Date: | 08 03 1949 |
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| Description: | Governor Rennebohm purchases the first viola from Walter Nettum, Stoughton, a member of the Iron Brigade Chapter of the Military Order of the Purple Heart.... |
| Date: | 09 07 1937 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the members of the Grand Army of the republic at a reunion. The group appears to be posing on the steps of the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 02 01 1945 |
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| Description: | Axel Olson, father of Sgt. Truman O. Olson, deceased, receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor from Col. W. Lutz Krigbaum on behalf of his son, who was k... |
| Date: | 03 01 1960 |
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| Description: | Kathleen Rueber and her four children receive the special medal awarded to her late husband, Gerhardt, for his service. Presenting the medal to Kathleen Ru... |
| Date: | 12 29 1964 |
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| Description: | Two Wisconsin Air National Guard officers shown receiving promotions at a ceremony at the Truax Officers Club. Left to right: Col. Arlie Mucks, Jr., receiv... |
| Date: | 08 15 1946 |
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| Description: | Lieut. Theordore Haspell is shown receiving four gold stars from Capt. J.E. Hurff, University of Wisconsin professor of naval science and tactics. The star... |
| Date: | 10 09 1951 |
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| Description: | The Distinguished Service Cross for heroism was given posthumously to Capt. Robert Walker, Lancaster, who was killed as the result of heroic action near Sa... |
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