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Includes commemorative booklet 10th Infantry Division (ca. 1944, with hand-written annotations), "Parody Indoctrination for return to the United States" (ca. 1945), plastic army map plotting template (ca. 1940), discharge papers, telegrams (dealing with O'Connor's wounding), photographs (Camp Hale) and newspaper clipping (obituary, copy).

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Includes a photocopy of a manuscript entitled Notes; includes details of Mikes escape from Hungry prior to World War II.

Content Description The collection contains materials from Vernon Raymond Evans from his time in the 10th Mountain Division of the United States Army during World War II. Content includes a scrapbook from Camp Hale with a written chronology, newspaper clippings, photographic prints, and annotations as well as cards, correspondence, V-mail, photographs, and a unit photograph. The scrapbook’s photos include his wife Zelma Evans while she stayed and worked in Glenwood Springs, their friends there, family...

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Collection contains memoirs: wedding of Waldo and Betty Sweet (1943); memoirs of Betty Sweet at Camp Hale, Colo. (1943-1944); copy of: A Trooper Takes a Wife from Ski Illustrated magazine (February 1945).

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Collection contains newspaper clippings (1943-1945), Camp Hale stationary and photographs (1943).

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Includes the newsletter "The Alumni Bulletin "created by scoutmaster Herbert M. Wilson. The newsletters contain excerpts from many World War II letters, including Hosking's (copies). An index to the newsletters is also included as well as the manuscript "10th Mtn Ramblings by A. Geezer", by Bill Hosking, (manuscript, copy).

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Collection contains correspondence from Fricke to his parents (February 4, 1945), related correspondence (1998).

Content Description

Summary of daily diary entries, correspondence (photocopies), photographs (JPEG files), short stories (photocopies), and oral history (MP4)

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Collection contains 2 scrapbooks. Scrapbook 1 was compiled by his wife, contains photographs, clippings and ephemera of his family, youth, school years, officer training, and service with the 10th Mountain Division, Army Signal Corps equipment photographs (ca.1920s-1945). Scrapbook 2 contains photographs, military orders, postcards, Italian money from Bourke's time at Camp Hale, Colo.; Camp Swift, Tex.; and service in Italy (ca.1943-1945).

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Collection contains a bound volume of letters from Craine to his parents, with photographs, newspaper clippings and memorabilia.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

Letters written by William J. Speirs to his wife, Ruth, during World War II comprise the bulk of the collection. Additional letters from Speirs to his parents, mother-in-law and daughter are also included. Limited post-war correspondence forms a small portion of the collection.