Herb Gundell papers, 1937-1989.
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Gundell, Herb
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Herbert Gundell was born in Fuerth, Germany, and raised in Switzerland. After briefly serving in the Swiss Army, he came to the US in 1939 and joined the 87th Regiment, Company L (10th Mountain Division) in 1942. As a US citizen, he worked as the Assistant County Extension Agent, was promoted to Extension Director in 1951, and retired from the position in 1978. Gundell wrote a gardening column for the Denver Post, hosted radio (KLZ and KLJ) and television (The Weekend Gardener and "Gard'n Wise")...
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...