View over the rooftops of the town of Lizzano-in-Belvedere toward Monte Tresca. This photograph was one of the pin-up mountains, which ran in the Tenth Mountain Division's newspaper each week.
Artillery hits sites on the upper part of a mountain in Italy, while a town down the hill is spared. In the background are more mountains; trees have budding leaves.
Aerial bombings--Italy--1940-1950.; Artillery (Weaponry)--1940-1950.; Mountains--Italy--1940-1950.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
Following an aerial bombardment that opened the Tenth Mountain Division's offensive Saturday morning April 14, 1945, hundreds of guns poured high explosives on German-held houses and towns. Shows a concentration of artillery blasting the town of...
Aerial bombings--Italy--1940-1950.; Artillery (Weaponry)--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
Four members of the 126th Engineering company guide a litter basket along the evacuation tramway in Italy from a cliff top. Some of the trees nearby have leaves.
Aerial tramways--Italy--1940-1950.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
U.S. Air corps and other allied pilots provided bombing and strafing support for the Tenth Mountain Division on Mt. Belvedere, Italy, under the code name: Rover Joe. Shown facing camera in the observation point are Lt. Robert Egner, of the South...
Air warfare--Italy--1945.; Military officers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; Badenhorst, W.; Egner, Robert.; Gaber, Edward.; Liversidge, Law.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
Shows four soldiers facing away from the camera in observation point that controlled air support for the Tenth Mountain Division on Mt. Belvedere, Italy, under the code name: Rover Joe. The location is a hole in the ground overlooking a valley, a...
Air warfare--Italy--1945.; Military officers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
Warplane taking off from an airstrip in the Aleutian Islands. Shows four other planes on the ground and a view of the base on the bluffs above the airstrip. The 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment served in the Aleutians with Amphibious Taskforce 9.
Airplanes, Military--Alaska--1940-1950.; Aleutian Islands (Alaska)--1940-1950.; Military facilities--Alaska--Aleutian Islands--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
View of an airstrip and base in the Aleutian Islands that shows a canal, an airstrip, various planes and materiel. Above the strip on the dunes is a base with more buildings, tents and materiel. The 87th Mountain Infantry Division served in the...
Aleutian Islands (Alaska)--1940-1950.; Military facilities--Alaska--Aleutian Islands--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
View of a harbor in the Aleutian Islands, showing an artillery emplacement, a battleship and additional warships in the distance. The 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment served in the Aleutians as part of Amphibious Task Force 9.
Aleutian Islands (Alaska)--1940-1950.; Military facilities--Alaska--Aleutian Islands--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
View from one Aleutian Island [probably Kiska] towards another showing an island, the sea and muskeg. The 87th Mountain Infantry Division served in the Aleutian Island as a part of Amphibious Task Force 9.
Aleutian Islands (Alaska)--1940-1950.; Military facilities--Alaska--Aleutian Islands--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
View of an airbase in the Aleutian Islands, showing a U.S. warplane, tents, materiel, and battle ships in a harbor behind the airstrip. The 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment served in the Aleutian Islands as a part of Amphibious Task Force 9.
Aleutian Islands (Alaska)--1940-1950.; Military facilities--Alaska--Aleutian Islands--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
Group portrait of eleven members of the field artillery observation crew attached to the Tenth Mountain Division in front of a plane at an airfield in Italy.
Artillery (Troops)--American--Italy--1940-1950.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
Four soldiers, from a unit in support of the Tenth Mountain Divisin Infantry, fire heavy artillery from beneath a camouflage.
Artillery (Weaponry)--1940-1950.; Camouflage (Military science)--1940-1950.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
Mortar sight, the invention of Tenth Mountain Division artillery Sergeant William "Bill" Kennedy as an improvement over those issued by the Army. It was used independently during the Italian Campaign by a few units in the Division. But Kennedy was...
Artillery (Weaponry)--Italy--1940-1950.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; Kennedy, William.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
Torger Tokle, a member of the 10th Mountain Division 86th Regiment Company A, poses with skis at a ski jump near Aspen (Pitkin County), Colorado. He wears a cap and sweater.
Aspen (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Military personnel--Colorado--Aspen--1940-1950.; Skiers--Colorado--Aspen--1940-1950.; Tokle, Torger.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
A boat tow is used at Aspen, Colorado, to transport skiers to the top of the slope. The photographer, William A. "Bill" Southworth, turns his head toward the camera. He is wearing his Tenth Mountain Division skiing uniform and sunglasses. A group...
Aspen (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Military uniforms--1940-1950.; Photographers--Colorado--1940-1950.; Ski lifts--Colorado--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
The Tenth Mountain Division troops march through the Po Valley in a narrow column that avoided larger cities as they head toward the Po River, near Baggazano, Italy, with large numbers of German troops on either side.
Baggazano (Italy)--1940-1950.; Po River Valley (Italy)--1940-1950.; Troop movements--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
Members of the Army Ski Troops (later the 10th Mountain Division) watch as a man identified as McNamara demonstrates the use of a "Swiss" shoulder belay in rock climbing for an MGM training film in Sun Valley (Blaine County), Idaho. The men wear...
Bald Mountain (Blaine County, Idaho)--1940-1950.; Sun Valley (Idaho)--1940-1950.; Climbing--Idaho--Sun Valley--1940-1950.; Infantry--American--Idaho--Sun Valley--1940-1950.; Military training--Idaho--Sun Valley--1940-1950.; Motion picture...
Walter Prager, 10th Mountain Division, 87th Mountain Infantry, jumps off a cornice on Bald Mountain on skis while he is filmed for a production of an MGM Army training film at Sun Valley (Blaine County), Idaho. He wears a white winter parka and cap...
Bald Mountain (Blaine County, Idaho)--1940-1950.; Sun Valley (Idaho)--1940-1950.; Infantry--American--Idaho--Sun Valley--1940-1950.; Military training--Idaho--Sun Valley--1940-1950.; Motion picture industry--Idaho--Sun Valley--1940-1950.; Ski...
A Tenth Mountain Division soldier stands holding a mule at Camp Hale, Colorado. The mule is wearing a pack saddle, with two cases on top that are secured with rope. The soldier holding the mule is also wearing a knapsack with a waterbottle and...
Barracks--Colorado--1940-1950.; Military camps--Colorado--1940-1950.; Mules--1940-1950.; Soldiers--Colorado--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; Camp Hale (Colo.)--1940-1950.
Portrait of David B. Allen in his "whites" or winter uniform posed in the same postion as the "Ski Trooper" cover of the Saturday Evening Post. He is crouching close to the ground and carrying a knapsack with a white cover, a rifle and is holding...
Barracks--Colorado--1940-1950.; Military camps--Colorado--1940-1950.; Photographers--Colorado--1940-1950.; Soldiers--Colorado--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; Camp Hale (Colo.)--1940-1950.
Interior view of a saloon, probably in a Colorado mountain town. One Tenth Mountain Division soldier looks toward the camera as he sits at the corner of an ornate mirrored wooden bar with a neon sign and a row of bottles against the back of it. The...
Barrooms--Colorado--1940-1950.; Interiors--Colorado--1940-1950.; Military life--Colorado--1940-1950.; Soldiers--Colorado--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
View of Main street, Bastrop, Texas, which was the closest town to Camp Swift, where the Tenth Mountain Division had flatland training. It shows the buildings in town and a man in a hat walking down the street toward the camera. Two children, a boy...
Bastrop (Tex.)--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
Division's newspaper each week.; Shows a farm and a cornfield which had briefly been a battleground during the fight for the mountains, Pizzo di Campiano, Belvedere and Torraccia. The farm consists of two haystacks, a small stone building, a larger...
Battlefields--Italy--1940-1950.; Mountains--Italy--1940-1950.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
American Red Cross aide Dorothy "Dot" Nielson, sits playing a guitar for three members of the Tenth Mountain Division from the Quartermasters Battalion: t/5 Arnold Carpenter (left), T/Sergeant Wilbert Rittmueller (kneeling), and T/5 Bennie Levine...
Battlefields--Italy--1940-1950.; Mountains--Italy--1940-1950.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
A group of about twenty-five Tenth Mountain Division soldiers are under fire in this image taken during the Italian Campaign. The men are in an open grassy field and are either crouched in the grass or bent over looking at the ground. White smoke...
Battlefields--Italy--1940-1950.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
Colonel Works, commander of the Tenth Mountain Division, 87th Regiment, Third Battalion, constructed a sand table, or three dimensional model, of the terrain that his men would be attacking during the April drive. According to the photographer the...
Battlefields--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Regiment, 87th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
Colonel Works, commander of the Tenth Mountain Division, 87th Regiment, Third Battalion, constructed a sand table, or three dimensional model of the terrain that his men would be attacking during the April drive. According to the photographer the...
Battlefields--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Regiment, 87th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
A leafless tree frames a view of Castel D'Aiano, Italy, scene of a major Tenth Mountain Division battle. The village lies in hilly country with larger mountains in the distance.
Battlefields--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
Ralph Bromaghin, a soldier in the 86th Infantry, poses on the face of a rock cliff during the production of a training film near Sun Valley (Blaine County), Idaho. He wears a light weight summer parka, sunglasses and a cap. Mountains are in the...
Blaine County (Idaho)--1940-1950.; Climbing--Idaho--Blaine County--1940-1950.; Infantry--American--Idaho--Blaine County--1940-1950.; Military training--Idaho--Blaine County--1940-1950.; Motion picture industry--Idaho--Blaine County--1940-1950.;...
Arnold Faucus and ski troops, members of the Mountain Division, 15th Infantry Ski Patrol (later 10th Mountain Division), and an MGM film crew stand or sit on the back of a trailer pulled by a snowcat during the filming of a training film near Sun...
Blaine County (Idaho)--1940-1950.; Infantry--American--Idaho--Sun Valley--1940-1950.; Military training--Idaho--Sun Valley--1940-1950.; Motion picture industry--Idaho--Sun Valley--1940-1950.; Ski troops--American--Idaho--Sun Valley--1940-1950.;...
Members of the 87th Infantry Detachment (later 10th Mountain Division) inspect a snowcat near Sun Valley in Blaine County, Idaho. Some wear parkas, caps and knapsacks. A Union Pacific logo is on the door of the snowcat. Shows a few patches of snow...
Blaine County (Idaho)--1940-1950.; Infantry--American--Idaho--Sun Valley--1940-1950.; Military training--Idaho--Sun Valley--1940-1950.; Motion picture industry--Idaho--Sun Valley--1940-1950.; Ski troops--American--Idaho--Sun Valley--1940-1950.;...
Houses at Bocca Di Ravari, just beyond Torre Iussi at the base of Hill 903. German troops held the houses and maintained a sweeping line of fire from there. The field to the right of the image was filled with mines. It was extremely difficult for...
Bocca di Ravari (Italy)--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
View of the damage caused at a railway station in Bologna, Italy. The Tenth Mountain Division was fighting in the area near Bologna during the Italian Campaign.
Bologna (Italy)--1940-1950.; War damage--Italy--Bologna--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
Pictured is a jeep on the Mount Mangart road stopped to view the rugged mountains north of Caporetto and Plezzo, Slovenia. The men of the Tenth Mountain Division had a chance to go sight-seeing during the summer after the end of the war.
Bovec (Slovenia)--1940-1950.; Kobarid, Slovenia--1940-1950.; Military life--Yugoslavia--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
Tenth Mountain Division, 86th Battalion, F Company Squad posing for a photograph in Italy. The Squad members are all wearing helmets and brown sweaters or khaki field jackets. All are carrying their weapons. All have rifles except one man, the...
Bow and arrow--1940-1950.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
Shows pontoon bridge over the River Po. Two Tenth Mountain Division soldiers drive a jeep loaded with boxes. Four more loaded jeeps drive through a cut in an embankment. Twelve soldiers sit nearby or stand ready to work near the bridge. Italian...
Bridges--Italy--1940-1950.; Military personnel--1940-1950.; Soldiers--United States--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.; Po River (Italy)
View of a pontoon bridge under construction on the Po River, in Italy. The bridge is being constructed by the Tenth Mountain Division's Engineering Battalion. Construction is progressing from each side bank of the river towards the center. A truck...
Bridges--Italy--1940-1950.; Soldiers--American--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.; Po River (Italy)
The bridge at Malandrone was needed to support the Tenth Mountain Division's attack on March 3, 1945. To complete it many men died. The Germans shelled the draw continuously while the work was under way, and twice knocked it out. Once complete, the...
Bridges--Italy--1940-1950.; Soldiers--United States--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
View of a brige that had suffered artillery damage in Italy. Around the bridge is an orchard; a few buildings are on the other side of it. Taken while the photographer was serving in the Tenth Mountain Division during the Italian Campaign.
Bridges--Italy--1940-1950.; War damage--Italy--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
A bugler plays taps beside the rows of white crosses that mark the graves of servicemen who died in the Italian campaign during a memorial service held for the men of the Tenth Mountain Division on April 6, 1945, at the American Cemetery in...
Bugles--1940-1950.; Cemeteries--Italy--Castelfiorentino--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
Captain Albert Jackman of the 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment (re-enforced) and commander of the Mount Rainier Test Expedition, at Cadaver Gap, Mount Rainier, Washington.
Cadaver Gap (Wash.)--1940-1950.; Rainier, Mount (Wash.)--1940-1950.; Soldiers--Washington (State)--Mount Rainier--1940-1950.; Jackman, Albert H.; United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Regiment, 87th.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
Portrait of William A. Southworth of the Tenth Mountain Division, 110th Signal Corps Company, wearing a helmet camouflaged with pine needles and a khaki shirt.
Camouflage (Military science)--1940-1950.; Photographers--1940-1950.; Soldiers--Colorado--1940-1950.; Southworth, William A.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.; United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Tenth Mountain Division soldiers march in formation down a street at Camp Hale, Colorado. They are carrying black regimental flags. Three barracks are in the background.
Camp Hale (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Barracks--Colorado--1940-1950.; Marching--Colorado--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
View of barracks at Camp Hale, Colorado, which was the training headquarters of the Tenth Mountain Division from 1943-1944. Beyond the barracks is a view of the rifle range.
Camp Hale (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Barracks--Colorado--1940-1950.; Military training--Colorado--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.