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United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Regiment, 85th -- Archives.

 Organization

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Clark O. Hitt Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M1883
Scope and Contents

Letters to friends and family; spiral bound book with transcriptions of all original letters with comments by Hitt; copies of photographs.

Dates: 1943-1996

Earl Clark and Richard Over oral history

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS OH206
Scope and Contents During a radio interview broadcast on Denver station KPOK, Jeanna Waring interviews Earl Clark and Richard Over: discussion as to why a Mountain Infantry Division was formed, who made the decision, who was instrumental in formulating the decision, and when and where it was formed; training, organizing and equipping of the unit are also detailed; the decision to change the initial unit mission in Europe from the liberation of Norway to the "Gothic Line" in northern Italy; combat mission in...
Dates: no date

Edward J. Redle Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M1926
Scope and Contents

Includes Redle photograph, rosters, notes, articles dealing with Company K, 85th Infantry Regiment (copies)

Dates: 1944-1945, 1977

Fletcher M. Danyew Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M1910
Scope and Contents

Includes photocopies of separation and honorable discharge.

Dates: 1945 or 1946

Papers

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS -M1887
Scope and Contents

Includes detachment of patients paper, 85th Infantry membership card, instruction booklet overseas travel, pay record book, meal ticket, Red Cross booklet, "This Damn Tree Leaks" cartoon book by Bill Mauldin.

Dates: Check date

Story of Ted Prentice in the ski troops or 10th Mountain Division during World War II in Italy

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS -M1884
Scope and Contents

Notebook compiled by Prentice contains copies of correspondence, cartoons, newspaper clippings, notes from World War II (1944-1945).

Dates: Check date

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Ski troops. 4
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American. 3
Armed Forces -- Officers -- Interviews. 1
Audiocassettes 1
Camp Hale (Colo.) -- Archival resources 1