Robert L. Cook papers, 1945 [manuscript].

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Robert L. Cook papers, 1945 [manuscript].

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Collection contains 6 pages from the Assistant Division Scrapbook containing b/w photographs of various 10th Mountain Division Headquarters Company officers and scenes (ca.1945).

1 oversize photo box

Denver Public Library, Central Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8122759

Denver Public Library, Central Library

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United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 87th

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Flagg, Donald E.,

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United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 86th

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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...

Cook, Robert L., 1905-1991.

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Robert L. Cook was born in Greensboro, N.C. on November 26, 1905. He joined the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Lewis, Wash. and was assigned to Headquarters of the Third Battalion of the 87th Infantry Regiment. He also served with the Headquarters Company of the 87th Infantry Regiment, and Headquarters for the First Battalion and Heaquarters Company of the 86th Infantry. He was stationed at Camp Hale, Colo.; and Camp Swift, Tex. before being sent to Italy. Cook was awarded the Bronze Star Medal ...