A company of the 85th Regiment, twelve in number, moves out across a ridge on Mount Belvedere while a larger group of roughly twenty Tenth Mountain Division soldiers wait in reserve, some in fox holes the rest in sheltered positions, including a medic, a man looking at his watch, and a few sleeping. There is a small patch of snow on the ground and a stand of leafless trees and mountain peak in the distance.
Description
1 photonegative ; 10 x 12 cm. (3 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.)
Is Part Of
10th Mountain Division Resource Center Collection.; 10th Mountain Division Resource Center Collection. Henry Moscow collection.
Subject
Campaigns & battles--Italy--1940-1950; Soldiers--United States--1945; United States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th; United States. Army. Mountain Infantry Regiment, 86th; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
Format-Medium
Photograph
Rights Contact Information
Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History and Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library, at photosales@denverlibrary.org.
Reproduction Available for Purchase
Yes (digital reproduction)
Related Material
Image file: ZZR700200139; Blizzard.
Notes
A cropped version of the photograph showing the company moving out was published in Blizzard, February 27, 1945, page 2 with headline "The mountaineers go into action."; Number 47 hand written on original negative envelope.; Title supplied by cataloger.; R7002001395
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