Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center

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305 E 2nd St.
Superior, MN 54880 United States Get Directions
Phone (715) 392-7151
Website https://bongcenter.org/

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  • 250 Years of Honor: A Marine Corps Story

    Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center 305 E 2nd St., Superior, MN, United States

    "Happy Birthday United States Marine Corps! On November 10th, the Marine Corps turns 250 years old. From Philadelphia, the birth place of the Marine Corps, to every ‘clime and place where we could take a gun,’ the Marines have an illustrious history of service to our Nation. Highlights and personal anecdotes will be presented in this fast-paced journey through 250 years of living up to the Marine Corps motto of, “Semper Fidelis” or Always Faithful." Presented by LtCol Donna Bergstrom, who retired from the United States Marine Corps Reserve in 2010. She obtained her reserve commission through the United States Marine Corps’ Officer Candidate School (OCS-87) as a Second Lieutenant in December of 1987. She graduated from The Basic School in June 1988 with a Military Occupational Speciality (MOS) in Signals Intelligence/Electronic Warfare Officer. She went on to serve over twenty years with assignment highlights of: Commanding Officer, Galeta Island,...

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  • National POW/MIA Recognition Day

    Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center 305 E 2nd St., Superior, MN, United States

    National POW/MIA Recognition Day is the third Friday in September To commemorate and honor those men and women who were prisoners or are still missing, the Bong Veterans Center will set up the Missing Man table September 19-21st, 2025. The table is a ceremonial memorial that honors and remembers prisoners of war, missing in action, and fallen service members. Every element on the table holds symbolic meaning. On Saturday, September 20th, 2025, members of American Legion Post 435 will share those symbolic meanings in a special ceremony at 12:45pm. Following the POW/MIA ceremony, we will be hosting Abby Allcox to speak from 1:00-2:00 pm. She will present a program on the WWII POW camps in Wisconsin. Program Highlights: During World War II, 39 prisoner-of-war camps housed captured German soldiers in Wisconsin. After the war, the prisoners were sent home, and the camps were mostly forgotten. However, in 2023, the logbook...

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  • The World Changed: US Foreign Policy in the Post-9/11 Era

    Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center 305 E 2nd St., Superior, MN, United States

    Dr. Haji Dokhanchi teaches a number of courses including Paths to Peace, Theories of War and Peace, International Law and War and Peace, and co-teaches Seminar in Peace-Building. He has received the UW-Superior Outstanding Service Award of Excellence twice in the past 20 years.

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  • Red Arrow Across the Pacific

    Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center 305 E 2nd St., Superior, MN, United States

    Mark Van Ells will be speaking at the Bong Center about the Thirty-Second “Red Arrow” Infantry Division and the crucial role it played for the Allied Forces in World War II. The former National Guard unit made up largely of men from WI and MI would eventually log more combat hours than any other US Army division during the war. Mark D. Van Ells is a professor of history at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York and the author of the previous books To Hear Only Thunder Again: America’s World War II Veterans Come Home and America and World War I: A Traveler’s Guide.

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