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10th Mountain Division Collection

This gallery accompanies this overview of 10th Mountain Division resources at the Denver Public Library.

10th Mountain Division Collection

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Tenth Mountain Division troops fill the entire frame, except for a small triangle of water in the upper right corner; troops are returning by ship to the U.S.A. All are in uniform, most wear helmets and some wear life vests. Some are reading, some resting, others look out to sea.

View of Captain Albert Jackman and Lieutenant Paul Townsend of the 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment (re-enforced) inside a green Everest Tent during the Mount Rainier Test Expedition. Jackman is taking notes and Townsend is reading. Equipment includes a stove, boots and crampons, and a sleeping bag. Jackman is wearing a cap, a dark shirt, khaki pants, and smooth-soled black boots. Townsend is wearing khaki shirt and pants and smooth-soled black boots.

View of Camp Two looking through Cadaver Gap at Camp Muir, (also known as Camp One during the Mount Rainier Test Expedition conducted by men from the 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment, re-enforced). Two pyramid tents are pitched in the snow in the foreground. The stone cabin at Camp Muir is visible on a slight rise across a large open snow field. Beyond Camp Muir rough mountain territory stretches into the distance.

A trio of soldiers from the 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment on patrol loaded with full rucksacks and rifles crosses the muskeg. The sea is beyond them. View is toward the north from near Cape St. Stephen.

Jim "Wyoming" Penton, a member of the 10th Mountain Division 87th Regiment Service Company (SVC), stands on a bluff over Broad Beach on Kiska Island in Alaska; U.S. and British flags are nearby. The 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment was in the Aleutians as a part of Amphibious Task Force 9. Boats and amphibious vehicles are in the water in the distance.

John D. Magrath, a member of the 10th Mountain Division 85th Regiment, Company G and a recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, poses outdoors with skis and poles at Camp Hale (Eagle County), Colorado. He wears a backpack with rifle, jacket, and mittens.

John W. Haines, III, of Company I, 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment, Tenth Mountain Division, faces the camera and smiles with a cigarette in his mouth and a rifle on his back. Behind him are the ruins and rubble of Pietra Colora. Haines was later killed in action.

Shows a group of Tenth Mountain Division skitroopers standing on the snow in the mountains. They have their skis and poles attached to the sides of their knapsacks. All of the are wearing caps, anoracks, pants and boots with gaiters. Four of them are also wearing ski goggles.

Five Tenth Mountain Division soldiers guard five tagged German prisoners on an Italian hill. Trees in the background are leafless. Photographer's shadow is visible in lower left corner.

Tenth Mountain Division soldier, Joe Stettner, climbs a steep rock face near Camp Hale, Colorado. He wears a cap, khaki uniform, and soft-soled shoes. Hammer and carabiners hang from his belt as he clips a carabiner to a piton.

Camp Hale, Colorado, the training headquarters of the Tenth Mountain Division from 1943-1944.

Two mules walk through snow trenches higher than their backs, guided by two Tenth Mountain Division soldiers. Eight men look on; two are bare-chested. Snow covered pine trees are in the background. Taken at Camp Hale, Colorado.

Shows a long line of more than thirty Tenth Mountain Division soldiers waiting for food. The chow-line snakes up a steep street in an Italian town; a few men are eating around a covered jeep. Above the town is a rugged mountain covered with snow; clouds hover over the roofs.

Five Tenth Mountain Division Skitroopers in uniform stand outside a small store at the Jerome Hotel in Aspen, Colorado. Anthony Dillon, far left, holds skis. Man on far right is identified as photographer Bill Southworth.

Four soldiers, from a unit in support of the Tenth Mountain Divisin Infantry, fire heavy artillery from beneath a camouflage.