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| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | A KC-97 of the 126th Refueling Squadron, Wisconsin Air National Guard, refueling an F-84 fighter over eastern Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | A Wisconsin Air National Guard F-89 Scorpion at Truax Field. Armaments for this fighter included two air-to-air rockets capable of being armed with nuclear... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | A Wisconsin family inside their new bomb shelter. |
| Date: | 11 01 1960 |
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| Description: | Among those attending the Air Power Banquet at the Wisconsin Memorial Union (left to right) are: Dr. Conrad Elvehjem, president of the University of Wiscon... |
| Date: | 04 17 1944 |
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| Description: | Dane County chief air raid warden, Coroner E.A. "Ace" Fischer puts a gas mask on Deputy Sheriff Albert Dahle on a stairway at the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 04 23 1965 |
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| Description: | Governor Warren Knowles' Command Post, located in the Capitol, was called into action after tornadoes struck southern Wisconsin. It serves as the disaster ... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | A group of soldiers posing in rows, some kneeling and holding their rifles. Caption reads: "May 1886 Co. F Wisconsin National Guard at Milwaukee riots." |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Members of the Wisconsin National Guard lined up at Camp Douglas. |
| Date: | 06 1877 |
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| Description: | The Guppey Guard, a Wisconsin state militia unit, in formation on a street in Portage. |
| Date: | 04 20 1944 |
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| Description: | Deputy Sheriff Albert Dahle and Sheriff E.A. Fischer, chief of the air raid wardens of Dane County, demonstrating gas masks on the steps of the Wisconsin S... |
| Date: | 08 08 1950 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Professor Joseph Hirschfelder, University of Wisconsin chemist. He also is project director for the U.W. Naval Research Laboratory, member of t... |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | Men from the armed forces working a game booth at a Civilian Defense Rally. Their hats are embroidered with the text "Greendale Wisconsin." |
| Date: | 10 31 1951 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter Kohler addresses a group of volunteers assembled at the Wisconsin State Capitol as part of Wisconsin's first civil defense support battalio... |
| Date: | 05 13 1952 |
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| Description: | Three volunteer supervisors who will be on hand to help explain the Alert America Convoy exhibit to visitors when it is at the University of Wisconsin-Madi... |
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| Description: | Demonstration with students and National Guardsman in front of the Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig building. |
| Date: | 10 31 1951 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of some of the 125 vehicles which were used in Wisconsin's first civil defense support battalion test in Madison. The vehicles are parked on ... |
| Date: | 04 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Dane County chief air raid warden, Coroner E.A. "Ace" Fischer, wearing a gas mask on the steps of the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 02 20 1951 |
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| Description: | Al Hammond, a technician at the state crime laboratory, poses with some testing equipment. As a former medical corps man during World War II, he would be a... |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | Children riding ponies in a roped-off area in a park at a Civilian Defense Rally. |
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