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10th Mountain Training Group meeting oral history

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS OH201

Scope and Contents

Recording of a group meeting of former soldiers who served in the 10th Mountain Division. Speakers include: Don Boswick, Fred Smith, John Bradley, Nate Morrell, Steve Knowlton, and Georgianna Contigulia. There are other speakers on the tape but they are not clearly identified. Subjects include: ski races, a wedding, the Aspen ski museum, mule stories, stories about troops and people, and talk about videos and films that we made, or were in the process of being made about the division. May be a formal or an informal meeting of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the National Association of the 10th Mountain Division?

Dates

  • 1992

Language of Materials

Material is in English unless otherwise noted.

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright is retained by the author of the items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Biographical / Historical

The Mountain Training Group was formed at Camp Hale, Colo. on October 26, 1943. This group was responsible for providing mountaineering training to the men that would make up the 10th Mountain Division. In December 1943, a Mountain Training Group detachment was sent to Italy to give instruction in rock climbing at the British Mountain Warfare School.

Extent

1 sound cassettes

Other Finding Aids

Typed notes available.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift;Georgianna Contigulia;2000.

General

Audio tape labeled as: Mountain Training Group, and 10th Mountain Division Resource Center Oral History Interviews.

General

Index identified as: Proceedings of Association Meeting.

Linking Entry Complexity Note

Forms part of the 10th Mountain Division Resource Center Collection.

Title
Finding Aid for the 10th Mountain Training Group meeting oral history,April 9, 1992
Author
Finding Aid prepared from MARC data.
Description rules
Rda
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Denver Public Library, Western History and Genealogy Repository

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