Howard W. Heck papers, 1945- 2007.

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Howard W. Heck papers, 1945- 2007.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123571113

The collection includes both print and CD-ROM copies his memoir: "Howard Heckʹs World War II Army Memoirs" (2007); military papers (1945).

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Denver Public Library, Central Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6815525

Denver Public Library, Central Library

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United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Regiment, 85th.

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United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th

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The 10th Mountain Division, a full division of the United States Army, specializing in mountain and winter warfare, trained at Camp Hale, Colorado, during World War II. Experienced in skiing, mountaineering and cold-weather survival as well as military tactics, the soldiers fought enemy forces in the Italian Campaign of 1945. Dubbed the "ski troops" by the press, the 10th Mountain Division remains the only military division recruited by a civilian organization, the National Ski Patrol. Many 10th...

Heck, Howard Walter

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Howard Heck was born in Minnesota, Minn. in 1925. He had graduated from North High School, Minneapolis, Minn. in 1943 and was working as a machine operator when he enlisted in the Army in 1944 at Fort Snelling, Minn. Heck received his basic training at Camp Roberts, Calif. He came to the 10th Mountain Division as a replacement troop in April 1945 and was assigned to Company L, 85th Infantry Regiment. From the description of Howard W. Heck papers, 1945- 2007. (Denver Public Library). ...