Pierre Delfausse papers, 1945-1995.

United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Regiment, 85th

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United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Regiment, 86th

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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...

Delfausse, Pierre, 1917-

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Born in New York in 1917. Completed four years of high school and was married at the time of his enlistment on April 5, 1943 at Newark, New Jersey. Joined the 10th Mountain Division while it was engaged in mountain and winter warfare training at Camp Hale, Colorado. Assigned to the 86th Infantry Regiment, Company B, and later served with the 85th Infantry Regiment, Company B and with the Headquarters Company of the First Battalion. Engaged in combat operations against the German Army in Italy fr...