World War II
Showing
101 - 120
of 134
, query time: 0.02s
101) Richard Leo Springer
Format:
Image
Military marker for: "Richard Leo Springer, US Navy, World War II, 1927--1986," in Fairview Cemetery. A cross is engraved at the top of the marker.
103) Roy Marfitano
Format:
Image
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.
Format:
Image
1942-1944: Tenth Mountain Division ski trooper in training at Camp Hale. Trooper caught in mid-jump with rifle on back. The troops trained at Camp Hale and later saw action in Europe.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Format:
Image
1944: Fifteen ski troopers in mid-ground, skiing. Carrying packs and ski poles. Additional figures in background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
106) Ski tow, Camp Hale
Format:
Image
The ski tow building at Camp Hale with circular tow mechanism clearly visible. Patchy snow on the ground
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Format:
Image
Ski trooper navigating the slope at Cooper Hill during training (Camp Hale)
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Format:
Image
View of ski slope at Cooper Hill with rope tow. Troops in foreground standing with skis and poles carried.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Format:
Image
Ski troops training at Cooper Hill, Camp Hale. Rope tow used, centerground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Format:
Image
Ski troops training near Camp Hale wearing packs. Six troopers in foreground with view of pines and mountains in background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Format:
Image
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.]
Format:
Image
Ski troops training near Camp Hale, Colorado. 22 skiiers proceeding in a line across the midground with mountain in the background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
Format:
Image
Photo postcard showing skiiers carrying skis to the tow at Ski Cooper, near Leadville. Cooper Hill is where the 10th Mountain Division trained while at Camp Hale.
Verso: "Bob--this is where we skiied [sic.] near Gilman, Colorado, where they trained the Army before going to Europe. This before 1950. Tennessee Pass on Rt. 24."
114) Soldier at Camp Hale
Format:
Image
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.]
Format:
Image
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.]
Format:
Image
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.]
Format:
Image
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
118) Theodore "Bud" Beck
Format:
Image
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.
Format:
Image
Bud Beck, being shipped from Mindinao, Philippines, to Japan, to act as occupation troops at the end of World War II. At the time, Bud was a T-5 (corporal) and a medic in the 193 Regiment of the 41st Division. "I have no idea what ship we were on, we spent so much time on ships that it was easy to lose track. I was 22 years old at the time."
Format:
Image
Clipping from Zinc Magazine [[no date] "Thomas E. Knight, Watchman, Gilman; MacDonald, Army."
"J'ai decoupe ca dans le journal de la cie de Gilman pour vous faire voir Tom. [Micheline Knight] [I've clipped this from the Gilman Company magazine so you could see Tom.]
