Ralph R. Bromaghin papers, 1945 [manuscript].

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Ralph R. Bromaghin papers, 1945 [manuscript].

Letter from a Chaplain to the Bromaghin family (1945).

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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...

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Ralph Bromaghin was born in Wash. in 1918 and enlisted in the Army at Ft. Lewis, Wash. in 1941. Bromaghin was unmarried, had attended four years of high school and had been working as an athletic instructor and skier. He subsequently served at Camp Hale, Colo., Camp Swift, Tex., and was assigned to several units, principally the Headquarters of the 3rd Battalion, 86th Infantry Regiment. During combat service in Italy, Captain Bromaghin was killed in action at Mt. Della Torraccia in February 1945...

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United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 86th

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