Eleanor Haack papers, 1944-1947.

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Eleanor Haack papers, 1944-1947.

The collection contains 37 b/w photographs of the nursing and medical staff at Camp Hale, Colo., Camp Carson, Colo., in Leadville, Colo. and at the Mount of the Holy Cross (1944); overseas deployment (ca. 1944); and correspondence, general orders (1945) and commission certificate (1947). Almost all of the individuals in the photographs have been identified. There is also a CD-ROM containing all of the photographs included with the collection.

1 envelope.

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Haack, Eleanor, 1919-

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Eleanor Haack was born in Grand Island, Neb. in 1919. She received her nursing degree in 1943 from Lincoln General Hospital Nursing School, Lincoln, Neb. Haack joined the U.S. Army Nurses Corps in 1944, receiving her basic training at Camp Carson, Colo. Later, she was stationed at Camp Hale, Colo. and commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant. Following her service at Camp Hale, Haack transferred to the Pacific Theater to aid in the war against Japan. After World War II, Eleanor married and returned to G...

Carlson, Deana,

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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...