Robert C. Sandell papers, 1945 [manuscript].
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Sandell, Robert C., 1924-2007.
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Robert C. Sandall was born in Calif. on June 25, 1924 and enlisted in the Army at Los Angeles, Calif. on January 25, 1944. At the time of enlistment he was single had completed 4 years of high school and working in a grain mill. Sandall joined the 10th Mountain Division at Camp Swift, Tex. where he was assigned to Battery B of the 616th Field Artillery Battalion. He fought during combat operations in Italy, and returned to Camp Carson, Colo. as a Technician Grade 4. Sandall died on June 22, 2007...
Webb, Charles W.
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United States. Army. Field Artillery Battalion, 616th
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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...