[name of person interviewed] oral history, 2007 [videorecording].
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Tomky, Orville T., 1924-
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Orville T. Tomky was born in Morgan County, Colo. on February 17, 1924, and enlisted in the Army at Denver, Colo. on June 5, 1943. At the time of his enlistment, he was unmarried, had completed four years of high school, and working as a farmhand. Tomky joined the 10th Mountain Division at Camp Hale, Colo., where he was assigned to Company B of the 16th Mountain Engineering Battalion. He also served at Camp Swift, Tex. before being sent to Italy. He attained the rank of Technician Grade 5. ...
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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...
Johnson, Vicky A
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