William J. Bourke Jr. papers, ca.1920s-1945 [manuscript].

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William J. Bourke Jr. papers, ca.1920s-1945 [manuscript].

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Collection contains 2 scrapbooks. Scrapbook 1 was compiled by his wife, contains photographs, clippings and ephemera of his family, youth, school years, officer training, and service with the 10th Mountain Division, Army Signal Corps equipment photographs (ca.1920s-1945). Scrapbook 2 contains photographs, military orders, postcards, Italian money from Bourke's time at Camp Hale, Colo.; Camp Swift, Tex.; and service in Italy (ca.1943-1945).

1 oversize box

Denver Public Library, Central Library

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Denver Public Library, Central Library

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United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Regiment, 85th

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Bourke, William J., Jr., 1919-1977.

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William J. Bourke, Jr. was born in New York in 1919. He joined the 10th Mountain Division at Camp Hale, Colo. where he was assigned to Company L of the 85th Infantry Regiment and also served with Company K of the 85th and in the 10th Mountain Headquarters. While engaged in combat operations in Italy, Bourke was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for his actions in the Apennines and the Po River. He was also wounded in action on April 23, 1945. He attained the rank of Captain. Bourke died in 1977. ...

Bourke, Judith H.,

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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...