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Camp Swift (Tex.) -- Archival resources.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:

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. 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

Armand W. Giovanni Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M2120
Scope and Contents

Collection contains Giovanni's war journal (1945), military records, postcards (1945), photographs (1943-1945).

Dates: 1943-1945, 1980

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

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

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

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

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

Glenn E. Haynes Memoir

 Collection
Identifier: M2125
Scope and Contents

Collection contains a copy of the Haynes memoir: My war experience (n.d.)

Dates: undated

HARRIS DUSENBERY PAPERS

 Collection
Identifier: TMD57
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE Correspondence between Dusenbery and his wife, Evelyn, which spans October 1943 to August 1945, comprises the bulk of the collection. Limited correspondence between Dusenbery and his parents is also included. The collection contains numerous memoirs and reminiscences written by Dusenbery. A scrapbook, created by Evelyn Dusenbery, primarily includes newspaper clippings. Aerial reconnaissance photographs of Mount Belvedere and combat operations maps also form part of the...
Dates: 1942-1996

Jesse Eugene Baker Papers

 Collection
Identifier: TMD10
Scope and Contents

Collection contains National Association of the 10th Mountain Division materials: correspondence, reunion information, scholarship subcommittee notes, minutes, notes, chapter information, personal papers of other 10th Mountain members, brochures.

Dates: 1980-1999

John Benson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: TMD16
Scope and Contents

Collection contains correspondence, prayer book, ephemera (1943-1945).

Dates: 1943-1945

John E. Fitzgerald Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M2102
Scope and Contents

Collection contains copies of Fitzgerald's memoir: Memoirs of a Ski-Trooper, 1942-1945 (1995), as well as a copy of: Italian Journal - 1982 (1982) by Jean Fitzgerald.

Dates: 1982, 1995

John W. "Bill" Hadskey Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M2112
Scope and Contents

Collection contains a copy of Hadskey's memoirs: A few random thoughts on Camp Hale (n.d.); Camp Swift, Camp Patrick Henry and the high seas (n.d.); biographical sketch (n.d.); pay record (1943), Bronze Star citation (April 3, 1945), payroll worksheet (1946), photographs of Camp Hale.

Dates: 1943-1946

Lester E. Harris Papers

 Collection
Identifier: TMD339
Scope and Contents

Collection contains family correspondence (1944-1945); military records (1943, 1945), ephemera: Italian lira currency, soldier's sewing kit, Germany Army wound badge (ca.1940s); publications: Remount Blue: The Combat Story of the Third Battalion, 86th Mountain Infantry by David Brower (1948), The Truth about Trooper by Barbara Steinhauser (1998); photographs and postcards (ca.1945).

Dates: 1943-2004

Levi W. Fitterer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M2107
Scope and Contents

Collection contains an 11 page typewritten memoir chronicling Fitterer's experiences with the 10th Mountain Division at Camp Hale, Colorado; Camp Swift, Texas; and service in Italy (ca.1995).

Dates: 1995

Lyle B. Bryner Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M2105
Scope and Contents

Collection contains photocopy of a letter written to Lyle Bryner to Dewey Anderson's grandson describing the attack on Mt. Belvedere (4 pages). Dewey D. Anderson (1926-1985) was a member of Company A of the 86th Infantry Regiment. He received the Bronze Star Medal for his actions at Gulandi on March 5, 1945, and was then wounded in action the following day.

Dates: 1996

Marcus Kletter Papers

 Collection
Identifier: TMD82
Scope and Contents

Includes newspaper clippings; special order of the day (April 1945); birthday card (August 1944) and Program (Italian) Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Naples (ca 1945). Photo album and loose photos contain images of Camp Hale, ski training, 3rd platoon 85-G, individual sliders and portrait and images of Kletter.

Dates: 1942-1945

Marion H. Fields Papers

 Collection
Identifier: TMD27
Scope and Contents

Collection contains copies of military papers, personal papers, news clippings, correspondence, photographs, cover of bible (1944-1945), Camp Swift memoir (1944).

Dates: 1944-1945, 2005

Maximilian Gross Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M2122
Scope and Contents

Collection contains copies of Gross' letters (1945), emigration documents (1942), and personal property certificate (1945).

Dates: 1942-1945

Paul D. Lack Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M2095
Scope and Contents

Collection contains a copy of Lack's memoir: He was there all the time! (2001).

Dates: 2001

Richard C. Over Papers

 Collection
Identifier: TMD342
Scope and Contents

Collection contains photographs of Colo. Ski Hall of Fame ceremony, statue at Fort Drum, NY, and Camp Hale, Colo. (1944, 1999, 2013), personal papers (1976), military records (1940s), ephemera, and magazine article (2010).

Dates: 1944-2013

Robert B. Martin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: TMD18
Scope and Contents

Collection contains biographical information and correspondence.

Dates: undated

Robert F. McFarren Papers

 Collection
Identifier: TMD100
Scope and Contents

Collection contains scrapbook with newspaper clippings (ca.1945), photographs, picture post cards; email correspondence (re: acquisition of material through Ebay and fund raising efforts); photo album contains approximately 170 photographs and McFarren's commission as 1st Lieutenant.and graduation program (1944); additional loose photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and separation papers.

Dates: 1945-2005

Robert M. Black Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M2103
Scope and Contents

Collection contains three memoirs written by Robert M. Black: memoir written to his son regarding his experiences at Camp Hale, Camp Swift and Italy (n.d.), memoir about the "D" series at Camp Hale (n.d.), reunion article published by the Baton Rouge Advocate (1999).

Dates: 1999, Unknown

Robert Platt Boyd Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: M2101
Scope and Contents

Collection contains a 13 page typescript of Boyd's memoir about his time with the 10th Mountain Division at Camp Hale and Camp Swift: "War Diary of a Mountain Engineer" (1998).

Dates: 1998

William J. Bourke Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: TMD169
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: circa 1925-1945