George F. Earle papers, 1943-1945, 1993-1995 [manuscript].

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George F. Earle papers, 1943-1945, 1993-1995 [manuscript].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/174053516

Includes Birth of a Division by Earle with correspondence, newspaper clippings, journal entries (copies), Hale and Hearty (theater production, script), notes on Kiska flora and fauna, photographs of the Kiska campaign and Camp Hale, Earle's memoir, retyped captured diary of Nebu Tetsugghi (officer with Japanese Medical Corps), 2 Italian Campaign illustrated maps with notes and 61 original oil paintings by Earle depicting 10th Mountain War scenes.

.25 linear ft. (1 box), 1 oversize box, 1 oversize file folder, 1 oversize photo box.

Denver Public Library, Central Library

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Denver Public Library, Central Library

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Earle, George F.

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Born in 1913, George F. Earle grew up in New Bedford, Mass. He began oil painting at the age of 8 and attended Syracuse University where he started the University's first ski team. Earle spent a year painting in Mexico and then began work on his advanced degree in fine arts at Yale University. Enlisted the day after Pearl Harbor and found his way into the 10th Mountain Division, where he became a ski instructor at Camp Hale, Colo. Throughout the invasion and occupation of Kiska Island, as well a...

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...