Austin J. "Mac" McKenna oral history, 2007 [videorecording].

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Austin J. "Mac" McKenna oral history, 2007 [videorecording].

The interview provides information and personal observations about McKenna's experiences: training as an engineer to do survey work at Fort Leonard Wood; transfer to the ski troops; Camp Hale in Winter and his assignment to S-2 Section of the Regimental Headquarters; mapping; "D" series training; Camp Swift and working with mules; being shipped to Italy in January 1945; trip to Maresca; drawing up plans for the tramway used to resupply Riva Ridge and to evacuate wounded; artillery barrages; crossing the Po River and Lake Garda; hospitality of Italian families and celebrations after the Germany surrender.

1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 videocassette (60 min. : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.) +1 envelope

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