Bob Greider oral history, 2007 [videorecording].

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Bob Greider oral history, 2007 [videorecording].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/777828179

The interview provides information and personal observations about Greider's experiences doing high priority research projects impacting petroleum transfer for the war in North Africa; joining the 10th Mountain Division at Camp Hale, Colo.; working as a ski instructor and umpire for the "D" series; attacks at the Po River and on Mount Belvedere; work locating and removing mines; contacting polio at the end of the war, hospitalization, and other troops from the 10th Mountain Division stricken with the disease.

1 videodisc (28 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 videocassette (28 min. : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.) +1 envelope

Denver Public Library, Central Library

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Denver Public Library, Central Library

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Greider, Robert S., Jr. 1918-

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Bob Greider was born on July 18, 1918 and received a degree in Geological and Petroleum Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. After joining the 10th Mountain Division at Camp Hale, Colo. he was first assigned to Company C, but later served with Headquarters Company of the 126th Mountain Engineering Battalion. He also served at Camp Swift, Tex. before deployment to Italy where he participated in military battles at the Po River and on Mount Belvedere. Greider attained the rank of 1st Lie...

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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...

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