US Army 10th Mountain Division

Army Ski History Program going to be held in Newport New Hampshire which is part of Sullivan County New Hampshire, folks come on out to enjoy learning of a mighty fine group of men, which put their life on the line to help others to have a life of Freedom.

On Monday the 6th of February 2012 the History of those mighty fine men will be told at the Library Arts Center, which is located at 58 North Main Street in Newport, New Hampshire. The program will begin at 7:00 P.M. The story which will be told, will be of the men which Served in the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division in World War II. The History of the men and this mighty fine Army Division will be told by Veteran Member Newcomb Eldredge.

Army Ski History Program going to be held in Newport New Hampshire which is part of Sullivan County New Hampshire, Mr. Eldredge's presentation will include the History of the 10th Division, storytelling, humor, there will be a short movie, and a slide show will be shown, plus there will be a expanded display of many artifacts, which will include Medals, Clothing and Mountain Gear that was used by the 10th Mountain Division during World War II.

This here program is appropriate for Kids in the Fourth Grade all the way to Adults. This here mighty fine program is sponsored by the Newport Historical Society.

Army Ski History Program going to be held in Newport New Hampshire which is part of Sullivan County New Hampshire,During World War II, the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division served in combat for only four months, but it had one of the conflict's highest casualty rates. This here division started out as an experiment to train skiers and climbers to fight in the most difficult, mountainous terrain in Europe. There were some of the men which joined the division were skiers already, while others had never seen a ski in their lives. Their training at Camp Hale, near Pando, Colo., included skiing, snowshoeing and rock climbing. They also learned cold-weather survival tactics, such as keeping warm by building snow caves.

The men of the 10th Mountain Division lived in the mountains for weeks, working in altitudes of up to 13,500 feet, in five to six feet of snow and in temperatures that dropped to 20 degrees below zero at night. At the end of 1944, the 10th Division was finally deployed and began the first of a series of daring assaults against the German army in the Northern Apennine Mountains of Italy. Mount Belvedere was the highest mountain in the Apennines, and the Germans had stymied the U.S. Army there for nearly six months. On Feb. 18, 1945, the 10th Division took Riva Ridge, to prevent the Germans from being able to survey U.S. positions below, in a nighttime operation.

Army Ski History Program going to be held in Newport New Hampshire which is part of Sullivan County New Hampshire, the steep mountain was covered in snow and ice. At night, the Germans did not bother with guard patrols, because the conditions were so difficult that they did not believe any American unit could climb the ridge day or night. But the Germans were wrong, and the soldiers of the men of the 10th Division climbed, silently, to the top and secured Riva Ridge with minimal casualties. The next day's operation, the assault on Mount Belvedere, would prove to be very different. The American Soldiers did ended up being victorious, but not without a price: Nearly 1,000 of the 13,000 soldiers in the 10th Division died.

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Dale in New Hampshire

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