It’s been 80 years since Colorado helped win World War II. American soldiers who had trained in the state’s rugged mountains stormed an Italian ridge the Nazis thought was unclimbable. The taking of ...
At 9,200 feet in the Colorado Rockies, the U.S. Army built Camp Hale in 1942 to train a new kind of soldier. The 10th Mountain Division was created to fight in snow, ice, and high-altitude terrain ...
In October 1941, the U.S. Army established a new regiment based upon mountain warfare. It became known as the 87th Mountain ...