Joseph P. Mayo papers, ca.1943-1945 [manuscript].

United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Regiment, 85th

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Williams, Melissa S.

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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...

Mayo, Joseph P., 1924-2008.

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Joseph Paul Mayo was born on March 26, 1924 in Quincy, Mass. and enlisted in the Army on June 25, 1943 at Boston. At the time of enlistment he had completed two years of high school, was unmarried, and living in Shenandoah, Va. Mayo joined the 10th Mountain Division at Camp Hale, Colo. where he was assigned to Company A, 85th Infantry Regiment. He also served at Camp Swift, Tex. before being sent to Italy in 1945 where he was wounded in action on February 21, 1945 near Mount Gorgolesco. Mayo was...