Edward T. "Ted" Prentice oral history, 2007 [videorecording].

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Edward T. "Ted" Prentice oral history, 2007 [videorecording].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/778802270

The interview provides information and personal observations about Prentice's experiences: work with the Forest Service prior to enlistment; being promoted to PFC three times before being "busted" twice; encounter with a coral snake in Tex.; service time in Italy and trip to Paris, France after the war.

1 videodisc (42 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 videocassette (42 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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Edward T. "Ted" Prentice was born in Kan. on May 30, 1925 and enlisted in the Army at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan. on September 24, 1943. At the time of his enlistment he was unmarried and had completed four years of high school. Prentice joined the 10th Mountain Division at Camp Hale, Colo. where he was assigned to the 90th Infantry Regiment, but later transferred to Company K of the 85th Infantry Regiment, and also served with Headquarters of the 3rd Battalion of the 85th. Company He recieved two Bro...

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