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Group portrait of 1st Plattoon, 2d Regiment, Lt. Clark, Sgt. Broerson in command. Camp Hale, December 20, 1944.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Soldiers gathered in front of barracks at Camp Hale.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
4) Charley Dump
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Portrait photograph of Charley Roy Dump. "Charley left home to join the Army at age 17. He later joined the Air Force and proudly served his country for 31 years. He retired in 1975 as the youngest Air Force Warrant Officer ever appointed. ... In his youth he was an avid skier, and was selected to compete, as an alternate for Downhill and Slalom for the 1948 Olympics Team in St. Moritz, Switzerland." -- obituary 2003
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Studio portrait of Ellis Bernard Bearden in Army Uniform. He served with the 3rd Armored Field Artillery Battalion during World War II, fighting for 21 months in Germany and France. "He told friends about being caught in Belgium, in the Battle of the Bulge, just days before Christmas. The Allied troops were surrounded by Germans, and the cloudy weather prevented planes from providing air support for days. Bearden talked of his joy on the day the...
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Ellis Bearden, in uniform, standing with his stepmother, Elizabeth Diamond Bearden. Ellis's mother, Maude Lewright Bearden, died in 1933, leaving three sons with husband Roland J. Beardon. Roland and Elizabeth were married in 1939.
7) Fishing
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Fishing at Lucky G.J. Ranch.
Margaret Smith, Edith Eidem, and Delia Bridget O'Callaghan, three WW II ex-Wacs, bought the Ranch in February 1947 from Mr. and Mrs. Carl Stewart. They operated the 300-acre ranch as a dude ranch. There was a thirty-two room ranch house that they cleaned up and then they added cabins and worked fields.
Gene Godat worked as their hunting guide for tourists. Gene and Fawntella Godat owned the Hilltop Dude Ranch in Sweetwater...
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Ivan "Ike" Lon Dump, in uniform, holding his son, Ivan "Ernie" Ernest Dump. They are outside, standing in the snow.
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Ivan "Ike" Dump in his Army uniform during World War II, including a regulation special issue sweater,
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Studio portrait of Ivan Lon "Ike" Dump in U.S. Army uniform, WW II.
11) Lucky GJ Ranch
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Calling card from Lucky GJ Ranch, at the confluence of Sweetwater Creek and the Colorado River. Margaret Smith, Edith Eidem, and Delia Bridget O'Callaghan, three WW II ex-Wacs, bought the Ranch in February 1947 from Mr. and Mrs. Carl Stewart. They operated the 300-acre ranch as a dude ranch. There was a thirty-two room ranch house that they cleaned up and then they added cabins and worked fields.
Gene Godat worked as their hunting guide for tourists....
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The main ranch house at the Lucky GJ Ranch.
Margaret Smith, Edith Eidem, and Delia Bridget O'Callaghan, three WW II ex-Wacs, bought the Ranch in February 1947 from Mr. and Mrs. Carl Stewart. They operated the 300-acre ranch as a dude ranch. There was a thirty-two room ranch house that they cleaned up and then they added cabins and worked fields.
Gene Godat worked as their hunting guide for tourists. Gene and Fawntella Godat owned the Hilltop...
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MacDonald Knight on his way back to camp after being on furlough, 1942. The photo was taken at Loveland Pass.
14) Roy Marfitano
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Roy Marfitano in his U.S. Army uniform prior to being discharged after World War II. He is standing on the steps of a building. Roy, Ronnie Dump and Buster Beck enlisted together in 1943. Roy worked in the Gilman Mine assay office from 1948-1972.
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Army ski troop training near Camp Hale, Colorado. Several skiiers standing in right foreground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Two soldiers in front of barracks at Camp Hale. One is standing on a boardwalk; another is standing between two parked vehicles. Additional barracks and vehicles in background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Soldiers mustering in front of a building at Camp Hale. Snow is falling. Crane in background; wooden barricade in foreground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Soldiers with duffle bags and rifles in front of the barracks at Camp Hale.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Verso: "Mom at Gilman with Harold Stoner home on furlough." Sophie Knight and Harold Stoner are posed next to an automobile.
"Harold was a good friend of my brother Don. So there was work at the mine and Harold boarded with us. So I guess he was really 'home' on leave!" -- letter Nov. 25, 2013, Betty Jo Schmidt to Jaci Spuhler
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Theodore "Bud" Beck on leave from the Army, October 1944, standing in the Beck's yard. The house in the background burned down. Tib Montoya was living in it at the time.
