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If you are a wwii history buff as my husband and i are you will be thrilled with the book the winter army by maurice isserman
Isserman starts with the training program and continues with the 10th mountain division from that point onward going from 1940 to 1945
Like the pictures of actual soldiers who fought with the 10th mountain division
I received a free kindle copy of this book courtesy of netgalley and the publisher with the understanding that i would post a r... Read More
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The cost was terrible a thousand men killed including the great norwegian skijumper torger tokle and three thousand wounded inc... Read More
Made up primarily of athletes it was lead by lloyd jones and then was taken over by george price hays
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Their first deployment was to oust the japanese from kiska in the aleutian archipelago
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My grandfather was in the 10th mountian division during wwii
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The people who established skiing in america realized that it would be easier to train skiers to fight than to train soldiers to ski and so was born an idea that led to specialized winter and mountain fighting troops
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The last two were also in the division
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It just seems like such an obvious thing but yeah up until that point the u
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Military wasnt really prepared to go fight a war on difficult terrain such as mountains
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The training was absolutely demanding and excruciating
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And of course it wasnt helped by the fact the soldiers were given just plain old standard issue tents that werent geared toward harsh environments
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Pretty sad the soldiers found alternatives such as digging snow caves and igloos to be slightly better options
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For me i enjoyed more the small tidbits of information i picked up rather than the strategic parts of the units fighting in italy
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