You can learn more about what happened to Wisconsin soldiers during World War 2 with a D-Day exhibit at the State Veterans Museum. Museum director Chris Kowlakowski says they’re adding their collection of interviews with Badger soldiers to a travelling exhibition.
“Our oral history collection is one of the best veteran oral history collections in the United States. And we like to tell people we are the microphone. The veteran is the voice,” said Kowlakowski said.
Kowlakowski says it’s vital that people remember what sacrifices it took to free Europe from the Axis invasion, and about the 46 Wisconsinites who died on the beaches of Normandy, France on June 6, 1944.
The Museum is near the Capitol in Madison, and is open 6 days a week.