10th Mountain Division Resource Center Collection; Photograph Album 15A; Album placed in TMD60 Walter L. Galson Papers
Summary
View of the Main Entrance at Camp Swift Texas. A military police man allows a Bell Telephone car to pass through gate number one. A small building and the other part of the gate is in the background. The Tenth Mountain Division was stationed here for "flatland" training in 1944 and 1945.
Date
August 6, 1944
Notes
"The Military Police are as familiar with the Bell Telephone cars as they are with the army vehicles. The manager of the telephone branch in Camp Swift and in Bastrop, Mr. Henry Ball, and his assistant Mr. Joe Bunch, are entering the Camp Swift gate to go to work in the morning. The telephone exchange has been declared as one of the most effecient of any camp in the Eighth Service Command" and date typed on reverse.; DPL F45523; For physical location, see Photograph Album 15A, Walter L. Galson; Signal Corps Photo #8SvC-13-44-1664 (Mears), Released by BPR 13 Sept. 1944, Lot 9474, lg typed on reverse.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Vintage photographic print.; R7002003931
Description
1 photoprint ; 20 x 25 cm. (8 x 10 in.)
Is Part Of
10th Mountain Division Resource Center Collection.
Subject
Camp Swift (Tex.)--1940-1950.; Military police--Texas--Camp Swift--1940-1950.; Soldiers--Texas--Camp Swift--1940-1950.; United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Regiment, 87th. Company F.; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th.
Rights Statement
Restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
