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Camp Hale (Colo.) -- Archival resources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

Aaron J. Schenck Papers

 Collection
Identifier: TMD390
Content Description

Content includes correspondence from Schenck to family members while at Camp Hale, Colorado; Camp Swift, Texas; and Italy. Also includes illustrations done by Schenck throughout, as well as collected souvenir postcards, newspaper clippings, photographs, Army documents, and other memorabilia. Schenck organized the collection contents chronologically into scrapbooks; this order has been preserved.

Dates: January 1943-November 1945, 1970-1997

Alfred Ricken Papers

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS -M1903
Scope and Contents

Includes telegram and correspondence from War Department notifying Emma Bischke Ricken of her husband's death and letter from Ricken to Albert Schaeffler. Photo album includes photos of Camp Hale, rock climbing, unidentified soldiers undergoing training, Cooper Hill, Leadville, inside tavern or bar, and rock climbing at Seneca, West Virginia.

Dates: Check date

Anthony N. Smith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: TMD386
Content Description

Collection consists of approximately 200 letters from Smith to his parents from 1943-1946, including newspaper clippings, photographs and postcards. A letter from February 11, 1946 included a burned letter that had been in an airmail plane crash. Notes regarding content description of 185 letters were provided by Barbara Mason (Smith) Selby.

Dates: 1943-1946

Ballard G.Busby Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M1925
Scope and Contents

Includes 13 large photographs (copies) showing Camp Hale (Colorado) and Italy during World War II, one small photo of Pvt Haslam, correspondence, and a Bronze Star Medal citation (July 5, 1945).

Dates: 1944-1945

Charles W. Thweatt Papers

 Collection
Identifier: TMD395
Content Description

This collection contains materials from Charles W. Thweatt detailed his experiences and responsibilities in the 10th Mountain Division of the United States Army during World War II. Content includes military records, photographic prints, correspondence, and newspaper clippings collected during the war and later on in his life.

Dates: 1943-2019

Donald Albert Petersen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M2234
Scope and Contents

Collection contains memoir: My Father, Soldier (2016). Memoir based on information collected by son, Michael P. Peterson.

Dates: 2016

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

Evelyn Supply Papers

 Collection
Identifier: TMD394
Content Description

This collection contains memorabilia from Supply’s time in the United States Army at Camp Hale, Colorado. Content includes her United States Army documents, correspondence, photographic prints, newspaper clippings, and booklets.

Dates: 1943-1945

James Gilronan Papers

 Collection
Identifier: TMD389
Content Description Collection includes original documents from Gilronan’s time in the United States Army, as well as photocopies of original documents, correspondence, photographs, magazine articles, newspaper clippings, newsletters, event rosters, and event booklets. Items from 10th Mountain Division reunion events feature prominently in the collection. The original order of the contents in three scrapbooks and an envelope has been preserved in file folders 5, 7, 8, and 9. There are eight VHS videotapes and a...
Dates: 1943-2009

John and Walter Kasabuski Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M1869
Scope and Contents

Includes photocopies of news articles, and clippings, photocopies of photographs and letters about John and Walter Kasabuski.

Dates: Circa 1940s

John H. Pierpont oral history

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS OH233
Scope and Contents

Discusses Pierpont at Camp Hale in December of 1942. Recalls drills and practices in 20 degrees below zero weather. Went to Kiska in July of 1943. Served in Italy taking part in the assault on Mt. Belvedere. Talks about men being killed by minefields and grenades that Germans lobbed when they were pretending to surrender. Recalls partisans who killed Germans at night and his furlough in Rome. Concludes with post war information about the 10th Mountain Division Association.

Dates: Check date

Martin Bockelmann Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M1923
Scope and Contents

Includes news clippings and notes for an article from The Independent Family Living, "A Veterans story: Martin Bockelmann, World War II Veteran."

Dates: August 17, 2005

Morton Lewis Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M2275
Content Description

Photographs from Camp Hale and Italy, as well as information booklet from Camp Hale

Dates: 1943-1945

Ray Jarnstrom Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M1876
Scope and Contents

Ray Jarnstrom's Memoir "Music at Camp Hale" 190th Army Ground Force Band.

Dates: Unknown

Reamer A. Bolz Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M2279
Content Description

Color slides from Italy in Spring 1945, Italian currency, a religious card from the Vail Reunion of 1983, and correspondence between Hugh W. Evans, Reamer A. Bolz, and Denver Public Library staff member Barbara Walton.

Dates: 1943-1945, 1983, 1988

Robert Donald Hansen Papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: TMD375
Content Description

Collection contains military records, booklets and insignia, correspondence to and from family members, and photographs from training and time spent in Italy.

Dates: 1940-1945, 1980

Robert John Barth Papers

 Collection
Identifier: TMD368
Content Description

Collection contains military documents, photographs, ephemera, and a scrapbook relating to Barth's service with the 10th Mountain Division in WWII.

Dates: 1942-1946

Stanley E. Leszko Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: TMD392
Content Description

The collection consists mainly of photographs taken by Leszko, but also includes slides, diary pages, separation papers, and newsletters. The photographs have been kept in the original subject groupings arranged by Leszko.

Dates: 1943-1945

Tibor L. Mikes Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M1909
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: circa 1930s

William I. Neder Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M2277
Content Description

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

Dates: 1943-1998