Robert Duvall oral history, 2005 [videorecording].

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Robert Duvall oral history, 2005 [videorecording].

The interview provides information and personal observations about Duvall's role as a replacement soldier with the 85th Infantry Regiment including his perceptions of the soldiers who were already members and had trained with the 10th Mountain Division as skiers; his transport to Naples, Italy aboard the SS Monticello.

1 videodisc (39 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 videocassette (39 min. : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.) + 1 envelope.

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

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Kealy, Abbie,

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Duvall, Robert C., 1920-

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Robert C. Duvall was born in Miller, Mo. in 1920 and enlisted in the Army at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. in June 1944. At the time of enlistment he was unmarried, had completed four years of high school and working as a farm hand. Duvall served his basic training in Fla. and was sent to Italy as a replacement soldier to the 10th Mountain Division. He was a member of Company B of the 85th Infantry Regiment and was discharged from the Army in May 1945. From the description of Robert Duvall ...

National Association of the 10th Mountain Division, Inc. Armadillo chapter.

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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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