Papers and photographs, 1917-1919.

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Papers and photographs, 1917-1919.

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Postcards, orders, paybook, and letters of Broecker, a Springfield (Illinois) native who eventually settled in Milwaukee (Wis.), related to his World War I service as a member of the 37th Signal Service Corps.

Papers 0.1 linear ft. (3 folders) and.Photographs 0.1 linear ft. (1 folder)

Wisconsin Veterans Museum Research Center

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Wisconsin Veterans Museum Research Center

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Broecker, Charles B., 1889-1951.

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Hall, Lucille

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United States. Army. Signal Corps

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Congress passed a resolution creating a national weather service on February 9, 1870, and it was signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. This new law directed the Secretary of War to take meterological observations and provide warnings of approaching storms. The Brevet Brigadier General Albert J. Myer and his Signal Service Corps were assigned this duty on February 25, 1870 by the Secretary of War. Weather observations began on November 1, 1870. In June 1872, Congress extended the weather...