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Camp Hale (Colo.) -- Archival resources.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 80 Collections and/or Records:

10th Mountain Division Ephemera Collection

 Collection
Identifier: TMD92
Scope and Contents

Ephemera from the 10th Mountain Division including such items as: a car tag from Camp Hale, Christmas cards, German map carrying case, Japanese flag, medals, patches, propaganda leaflets (German and Japanese), Visitors pass from Camp Hale, Italian souvenirs and religious material (U.S. and German).

Dates: 1943-2000

10th Mountain Division Newspaper Collection

 Collection
Identifier: TMD93
Scope and Contents

Newspaper collection contains newspapers, articles and headlines that are related to the 10th Mountain Division. Titles include: Avalanche, Blizzard, Camp Hale Ski-Zette, The Rucksack, Camp Carson Mountaineer, Life, Stars and Stripes (Mediterranean edition) and YANK.

Dates: 1934-2002

10th Mountain Division Pamphlet Collection

 Collection
Identifier: TMD91
Scope and Contents

Includes pamphlets by various publishers about military and 10th Mountain subjects such as training, travel guides, song books, historical information, campaign information, equipment, poetry and returning to civilian life.

Dates: 1917-1991

10TH MOUNTAIN DIVISION PERSONAL PAPERS

 Collection
Identifier: TMD309
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE This collection contains personal papers related primarily to individual soldiers who served with the 10th Mountain Division during World War II. Also included are papers related to other persons who had a significant impact on the history of the 10th Mountain Division. Donated by veterans, descendants and friends over the course of more than twenty-five years, the contents of each individual file may be limited to a single document or a single photograph, which is generally not...
Dates: 1935-2014

Alan V. Carlson papers

 Collection
Identifier: TMD81
Scope and Contents

Collection contains military papers, meal ticket (1943); transportation pass; correspondence from Fort Bragg, Camp Hale, Camp Swift, V-Mail correspondence and Post War correspondence (1944-1946).

Dates: 1943-1946

Albert A. Wiedorn Papers

 Collection
Identifier: TMD45
Scope and Contents

Collection includes correspondence with family members and friends, photographs, post cards, manuscript of A Riflemanʹs Diary by Donald H. Montgomery (1996).

Dates: 1943-1996

Albert H. Jackman oral History

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS OH218
Scope and Contents Discusses his military career beginning with basic training and ending up with an assignment as a professor of military science at Western Michigan University. He talks about learning that the army needed ski troops, going on active duty in January of 1941, reporting to the 87th Infantry to test equipment and training methods. He goes through winter training at Camp McCoy Wisconsin and proceeds to Camp Hale. He is sent with the 10th Mountain Division to Italy and describes Lizzano and...
Dates: Check date

Albert H. Meinke, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: TMD203
Scope and Contents

Collection contains a manuscript copy of Meinke's book: Mountain troops and medics, wartime stories of a frontline surgeon in the U.S. Ski Troops (ca.1990s).

Dates: circa 1990a

Andres Vigil oral history

 Collection
Identifier: C MSS OH240
Scope and Contents Discusses signing up for the 10th Mountain troops at the beginning of the war, about training and about being assigned to the HQ Company. He arrives at Camp Hale after Christmas of 1943 for mountain training and ski instruction. He serves on Kiska and describes the conditions and the weather there. He goes to Camp Carson for mountain climbing training and transfers to Camp Hale. He's sent to Italy and describes the actions on Mt. Belvedere, the taking of prisoners, the minefields, and the...
Dates: Check date

Arthur F. Thompson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M2219
Scope and Contents

Collection contains a copy of Thompson's memoirs: A Military Journey - memoirs of Arthur F. Thompson as a 10th Mountain Division soldier in World War II (2013).

Dates: circa 2000

Bruce A. Wakefield Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M2196
Scope and Contents

Collection contains: photocopies of Wakefield's military records (1945, 1946); correspondence (1943, 1945, 1988).

Dates: 1945-1988

Bruce B. Cooke Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M2108
Scope and Contents

Collection contains photocopies and transcripts of letters written to Crooke's parents (1945).

Dates: May 13, 1945

Charles C. Messler Papers

 Collection
Identifier: TMD39
Scope and Contents

Collection includes scrapbook materials, change of address material, copies of photos and ephemera.

Dates: Check date

Clarence F. "Con" Dorsch Papers

 Collection
Identifier: TMD307
Scope and Contents

Collection contains Dorsch's honorable discharge; separation qualification record; military papers (1943-1946); copies of newspaper clippings (1944-1945); b/w photos of Camp Hale, South Pacific (1943-1945); Basic field manual and soldier's handbook (1941); A prayer book for soldiers and sailors by Church pension fund (1943).

Dates: 1941-1946

David M. Fowler Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M1917
Scope and Contents

Collection contains correspondence, biographical information, newspaper clippings, obituary, memorial tributes and photographs.

Dates: 1917-1981

Donald J. Hubbard Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M2127
Scope and Contents

Collection contains undated copies of two memoirs by Hubbard: The Military Experience of a Cavalryman (17 pages); The Last Mounted Cavalry Pistol Charge (13 pages).

Dates: Unknown

Donald M. Forker Papers

 Collection
Identifier: TMD95
Scope and Contents

Collection includes copy of Forker's ski qualification scores (1943), correspondence of his recollections of the Italian Campaign (copies, 1989-2001), photographs of Company B 86th Regiment and training at Camp Hale (1943-1945), sketches of regimental crests, and a watercolor painting by Forker of the Camp Hale barracks and the view from hillside above the camp (1989), color photograph of Donald and Juanita Forker (ca.2000) .

Dates: 1943-2001

Donald R. "Bernie" Dallas Papers

 Collection
Identifier: TMD178
Scope and Contents

Collection contains a scrapbook with an activities log for Company I of the 86th (February-March 1945), military papers, code of conversation, bulletins, photographs.

Dates: 1943-1945

E. Preble Motley Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M2166
Scope and Contents

Collection contains a copy of Motley's memoir: Memoirs of Six Months by E. P. Motley.

Dates: 1990-1991

Edmund Minikel Papers

 Collection
Identifier: TMD382
Content Description Collection consists of Camp Carson Mountaineer newspapers, a typed history of the 604th Field Artillery Battalion, American Legion service recognition card, and photo album pages with black and white photographs affixed and negatives tucked behind. Most photos are identified. Locations include Camp Carson, Camp Hale (obstacle course, mules), Iron Mountain, Denver (capitol, Civic Center Park, monuments), Will Rogers Shrine, Seven Falls,Cave of the Winds, Italy;...
Dates: 1943-1945

Eugene T. Burke Papers

 Collection
Identifier: TMD52
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, correspondence recollections about holidays (1944-1945) while serving as a Battle Casualty Officer in Italy (1945), military papers and ephemera, personal papers and scrapbook pages.

Dates: 1944-1945

Floyd F. McGee Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M2154
Scope and Contents

Collection contains photocopies of correspondence from McGee to his family (1943-1945); photocopies and original photographs of McGee (1943); photocopies of military records (1943-1950); photocopy of letter from Ronald "Lefty" Sirois to Rosiland MacMillon (2003).

Dates: 1943-2003

Frank Romano Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: TMD66
Scope and Contents

Includes materials from the National Association of the 10th Mountain Division, Camp Hale 50th Anniversary, Camp Hale project information, newspaper clippings, articles, manuscripts and sheet music.

Dates: 1977-1998

Franklin O. Mjaatvedt Papers

 Collection
Identifier: TMD123
Scope and Contents

The collection contains an assorment of original and copy photographs of: Camp Hale and the "D-series, " Riva Ridge, Italian Campaign, Post-war occupation of Northern Italy, U.S. Army Signal Corps (1943-1945, 1947); John Paul Jones Memorial, Utah (1999); 10th Mountain Division participation at the Winter Olympics, Salt Lake City, Utah (2001).

Dates: 1943-2001

Franklin Wirth Walker Papers

 Collection
Identifier: TMD387
Content Description

Collection consists mainly of correspondence from Franklin Wirth Walker to Vera Mae (Foster) Walker during his service with the 10th Mountain Division at Camp Hale, Colorado; Camp Swift, Texas; and in Italy. There are also letters from Vera to Franklin and to and from other family members and friends. One folder contains Franklin's life insurance certificate and Army salary allotment receipt, Vera's teaching contract and the couple's wedding announcement.

Dates: 1941-1945

George A. Koslow Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M1968
Scope and Contents

The collection contains the following paperwork: Bronze Star Citation (1945), copies of a newspaper clipping and discharge papers (1945) for George Koslow.

Dates: 1945

George C. Dangman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: TMD94
Scope and Contents

Collection contains correspondence (1943-1945), a biographical sketch (n.d.), transcription of clippings regarding Dangman's artwork (n.d.), a photograph of Dangman (1944) and 19 wood block prints on Christmas cards by Dangman (1971-1988).

Dates: 1943-1988

Gerald B. Cullinane Papers

 Collection
Identifier: TMD38
Scope and Contents

Collection contains correspondence, letters of recommendation from National Ski Patrol; copies of military papers and photographs; memoir: From Student to Solider: My War Years 1941-1945.

Dates: 1942-2000

H. Robert Krear Papers

 Collection
Identifier: TMD372
Scope and Contents

Collection contains copies of Krear's memoirs: Journal of a U.S. Army mountain ski trooper in World War II, Memoirs of field maneuvers at Camp Hale; correspondence, b/w photographs, military documents and booklets, menus, newspaper and magazine articles featuring Krear, and a Shield Bible Krear carried.

Dates: 1941-2010

Hans H. Teichner Papers

 Collection
Identifier: TMD74
Scope and Contents

Collection includes biography compiled by David L. Miller (ca.1990s), military papers (1944), rosters (1944), correspondence (1992), and copies of photographs (n.d.).

Dates: 1944, 1990-1992