C. Page Smith papers, 1949-1995 [manuscript].
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United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Regiment, 85th
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The National Association of the 10th Mountain Division was founded after the World War II by a handful of combat veterans determined to form an alumni organization that would carry on the traditions of the 10th Mountain Division as one of the most unique combat forces in American military history. Its purposes include fostering friendships among all soldiers of the 10th, and encouraging mountain and winter warfare training within the armed forces of the United States. As of 2007, The National As...
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Charles Pageward Smith was born in Md. on September 6, 1917 and had completed his undergraduate degree at Dartmouth College in 1940. During WWII, Smith served with the 10th Mountain Division as company commander of Company C of the 85th Infantry. Following the war, he earned his doctorate at Harvard and became a noted historian, writer and professor of history who wrote a number of scholarly works on history. Smith died in Calif. on August 28, 1995. From the description of C. Page Sm...
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