Upcoming Programs
To honor our veterans during the week of Veteran's Day, the Portage County Historical Society offers this presentation focusing on Stevens Point's National Guard units as they prepared for WWII. Understrength and ill-equipped in 1936, the two batteries were upgraded as the world situation deteriorated. In October 1940, 188 local men were deployed to Louisiana for training as part of the 32nd (Red Arrow) Division. After Pearl Harbor, the 32nd saw over 600 days in combat in New Guinea and the Philippines, before returning home in 1946. We will look at their transformation and the emotional deployment ceremony. This program uses images from the Portage County Historical Society collection of Stevens Point Daily Journal negatives, some of which were never published.
Thank you to the Plover VFW for generously sponsoring and hosting this presentation. Free admission, limited seating is first come, first served.