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Recent News - 2019
Waterloo World War II U.S. Navy codebreaker Delores Schaack Burdette honored on her 100th birthday
Posted by
Pat Kinney
on Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Family of a Waterloo World War II veteran who turned 100 years old Monday gathered at the Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum for a special donation in her honor by staff of her high school alma mater.
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Bex Hildebrand Reflects on Internship
Posted by
Bex Hildebrand
on Monday, January 11, 2021
This fall, interns from the University of Northern Iowa transcribed 54 letters from the museum's archive in an off-site internship program. Junior-year history major Bex Hildebrand gives us a look into their experience, including their thoughts on transcribing the letters of Pvt. Richard Bird, USAAF, of Independence, IA.
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'Storm' of war echoes for Gulf vets in Grout exhibit
Posted by
Pat Kinney
on Tuesday, December 15, 2020
The Grout Museum District and the Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum have always been about giving veterans, specifically Iowa veterans their due.
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Waterloo manager literally sunk his teeth into baseball
Posted by
Pat Kinney
on Friday, August 28, 2020
I've been going to baseball games at Waterloo's Municipal/Riverfront Stadium since I was a kid in the late '60s. There were a lot of great players and a lot of characters who graced Waterloo's "friendly confines" over those years. Among the characters, none, perhaps, was more colorful than Billy Scripture.
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Lessons of WWII Must Never Be Forgotten
Posted by
Pat Kinney
on Thursday, August 6, 2020
World War II ended 75 years ago this month with the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Aug. 6 and 9 respectively, and the Japanese surrender Aug. 14. Nazi Germany had fallen and surrendered four months earlier. Japan officially signed surrender papers aboard the battleship USS Missouri, alongside its sister ship the USS Iowa, in Tokyo Bay Sept. 2, which was declared Victory over Japan day, or V-J Day.
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