Mervin R. Pope papers, 1941-1942 [manuscript].

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

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Pope family,

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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...

Pope, Mervin R., 1919-1986.

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Mervin R. Pope was born in Iowa on February 12, 1919 and enlisted in the Army at Fort Des Moines, Iowa on Aug. 13, 1940. At the time of enlistment, he was unmarried, had completed grammar school and working on a farm. Pope joined the 10th Mountain Division at Camp Swift, Tex. and served in Company A of the 604th Field Artillery Battalion and Headquarters Company and Company A of the 85th Infantry Regiment. He attained the rank of Staff Sergeant. Pope died in Fremont, Iowa in January 1986. ...