10th Mountain Division Descendants, Inc. Records

Collection

Identifier: TMD340

Staff Only

Content Description

Collection contains mostly meeting minutes, reports, and historical notes. Recordings of a few presentations and oral histories are also included.

Dates

Unknown

Language of Materials

Material is in English unless otherwise noted.

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from material in the collection should be discussed with the appropriate librarian or archivist. Permission for publication may be given on behalf of the Denver Public Library as the owner of the physical item. It is not intended to include or permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained by the customer. The imply Library does not assume any responsibility for infringement of copyright or publication rights of the manuscript held by the writer, heirs, donors, or executors. Reproduction restrictions are decided on a case-by-case basis.

Biographical / Historical

10th Mountain Division Descendants (sometimes referred to as TMDD, or Descendants, Inc.) was formally established in 1998. However, long before that there were descendants actively involved in and supportive of all things 10th Mountain. Some of the descendants who stepped into active roles when TMDD was organized had gotten their first taste of 10th Mountain activities as early as 1963 on the inaugural return trip to Italy, and the 1965 reunion held in Vail, Colorado.

An early effort in the 1980s to create a descendants’ organization, with the working title “Spirit of the 10th,” was strong on enthusiasm, but as yet unable to get a descendants’ organization of the ground. However, support continued to build. In the late 1980s, Bill Boddington (A, SVC/86), a founding member of the 10th Mountain Division Foundation, asked some descendants to join the Foundation board as “adjunct members with the intent of following in the footsteps of their fathers who were currently serving on the board.

Board meetings are held annually every summer. To date, TMDD has over 1,000 paid contributors, and a database of over 3,000, comprised primarily of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of World War II 10th Mountain Division veterans.