The state Veterans Museum is unveiling a new display Thursday featuring equipment a Wisconsin sailor used on D-Day. The museum will unveil the display on the 75th anniversary of the June 6, 1944 invasion along the coast of Normandy, France. Museum director, Michael Telzrow, says the display will feature rain gear, a helmet and boots Martin Gutekunst of Milwaukee wore on Utah Beach. “Those sorts of items have a certain power to them. When you look at them and think about where they were and what was happening,” Telzrow tells WFDL news. “They really do have a special power to move people.” Gutekunst was a 27 year old radioman with the 2nd Naval Beach Battalion during the invasion. The artifacts will be on display at the museum until June 30.
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photo: waupun mayor rohn bishop The Waupun Common Council has postponed action on wage increases for paid on call firefighters and elected officials to get more public input. The council discussed the matter, sometimes heated, at their meeting this week and will take up the issue again at their April 8th meeting. If […]
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A house fire near New Holstein claimed the life of a child. Shortly after 2am Wednesday firefighters were called to the scene on Honeymoon Hill Road near County Road T. A child in the home was pronounced dead at a hospital. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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