The Gettysburg College papers, 2000.

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The Gettysburg College papers, 2000.

Contains the following type of materials: oral histories. Contains information pertaining to the following war: World War II (WWII) -- United States (U.S.), -- European Theater of Operations (ETO), -- Mediterranean. Contains information pertaining to the following military units and organizations: 189th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division; 14th Tank Battalion, 9th Armored Division; 10th Mountain Division. General description of the collection: The Gettysburg College papers include officers' and enlisted men's memoirs: transcripts of interviews conducted by Gettysburg College students with World War II veterans Robert Bradley, Charles Windsor Miller, and Robert Monahan, Sr.; Battle of Mortain; prisoner of war (POW) experiences; use of armor during Battle of the Bulge, advance to the Rhine, and seizure of the Lundendorff Bridge at Remagen; training of the 10th Mountain Division; combat in northern Italy, Mount Belvedere to the Po River Valley.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7615389

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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...

Bradley, Robert, World War II veteran

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Monahan, Robert, Sr.

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Miller, Charles Windsor

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