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Apr
18
2009
The 10th Infantry Division was activated on July 15 1946 at Camp Hale, Colorado, as 10th Light Division (Pack Alpine) and moved to Camp Swift, Texas, on June 22 1944, where if was re-designated 10th Mountain Division on November 6 1944.
The 10th staged then at Camp Patrick Henry, Virgina on December 27 1944 until departed Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation on January 6 1945, and completely arrived in Italy on Januray 18 1945.
When hostilities ceased, the 10th Mountain Division was sent back to the USA et Hampton Roads on August 11 1945 and moved then to Camp Carson, Colorado on August 16, 1945 and was inactivated there on November 30 1945.
10th Mountain Division – Casualties
- Killed in Action : 872
- Wounder in Action : 3134
- Died of Wounds : 81
10th Mountain Division – Commanders
- Maj Gen Lloyd E. Jones : July 1942 – November 1944
- Maj Gen George P. Hays : November 1944 – Deactivation
Feb
27
2009
Dear Gunter, the press request 99th got had me find this which will be of interest to you and your website. You will get detailed explanation with my letters home of going into Army and joining the 99th Infantry Battalion Separate, the 99th Formation and Training. Followed by full write up the Belgian Ardenne or Battle of the Bulge done with nearly hundreds of quotes from 99ers. What follows is from my November 2007 99th Informations and Newsletter. Below are quotes from many of my Dad’s letters written during the War many and perhaps even most of your readers know of 99er letters written during the War.
Copies you have typed up on your computer or legible photocopies that fill in much more of the 99th’s story and tell your 99er’s story. The following has been written in response to questions from Antoni Pisani the Norwegian who lives in Oslo that is now working on a book about all of the 99th, and not just “C” Company as it first started out, for a Norwegian publishing company.
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