Carl D. Kerekes papers, 1944-2000.

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

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Kerekes, Carl D., 1924-2007.

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Carl D. Kerekes was born in Mich. in 1924 and enlisted as a Private in the Army at Kalamazoo, Mich. in 1943. At the time of his enlistment he had completed four years of high school, worked as a payroll clerk or timekeeper and was unmarried. Kerekes joined the 10th Mountain Division at Camp Hale, Colo. and was assigned to the 90th Infantry Regiment, later to Company C and G of the 86th Infantry Regiment and then to Company B of the 85th. He attended Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Ga. ...

United States. Army. 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...