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334th Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron, 23 July 1942-30 April 1944 3508th Army Air Force Base Unit, 1 May 1944-30 November 1945 Now: Dane County Regional Airport and Truax Field Air National Guard Base (IATA: MSN, ICAO: KMSN, FAA LID: MSN) First Air Force. Camp Williams Army Air Field, Finley, Wisconsin
[164] [165] Madison Army Air Field, Wisconsin, is named Truax Field in his honor in 1942. A third pilot, Lt. Walter V. "Ramblin" Radovich, [ 166 ] flying 41-13392 , had left the formation over San Rafael , almost hit the city courthouse on 4th Street, circled the Forbes Hill radio beacon (37°58'44.73"N,122°32'50.78"W), clipped a tree and then ...
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Originally known as Madison Army Airfield, Truax Field was activated as an Army Air Forces airfield in June 1942 during World War II.During the war it was used by the Army Air Force Eastern Technical Training Center, a major school operating at Truax AAF for training radio operators and mechanics, and later expanded to training in radar operations, control tower operations and other ...
1942 Wisconsin elections (3 P) S. 1942 in sports in Wisconsin (7 P) Pages in category "1942 in Wisconsin" This category contains only the following page.
Battle for Henderson Field: October 1942; Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, October 1942; Matanikau Offensive: November 1942; Koli Point action: November 1942; Carlson's Patrol: November–December 1942; Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. November 1942; Battle of Tassafaronga, November 1942; Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea ...
Burr was born on May 11, 1908, in Neenah, Wisconsin.He joined the Wisconsin Army National Guard in about 1928 and served with the 32nd Infantry Division.After the 32nd Division was federalized in 1940, he participated in training exercises with his unit until late 1941, when he was discharged for being over the 28-year age limit. [1]
The 3rd Wisconsin [National Guard] got into battle yesterday and one man was wounded in the hip, and one of the Massachusetts boys got shot in the neck, and went a mile, and a half before he fell. There was a skirmish last night but have heard of no one being wounded, or killed." [6] Three members of the Wisconsin Infantry Regiments died of fever: