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Robert W. Parker Audio 6

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Call NumberOH232-2018-1450CreatorParker, Robert W., 1922-2017Date1977-2009SummaryDiscusses quitting college to learn to ski, about learning about the ski troops after Pearl Harbor, and about reporting to duty in June with the 87th Infantry Regiment at Fort Lewis. Sent to Camp Hale when it had just opened and had high altitude training as a rifleman. Talks about arriving in Naples and being injured from a shell impact on Belvedere. Discusses Po River and the flat land fighting, then moving north, capturing German troops and the fight at Lake Garda. Talks about the support they had in the field. He talks about finding a German liquor warehouse, about Nazis hiding in resort hotels, and about spending the occupation in Northern Italy, which included going to the Yugoslavia border. He gets Hepatitis and goes home where he eventually works on a ranch in Wyoming, then as a wilderness guide, and then joins the Ski Patrol. Some of his poems are published in the New Yorker and other magazines. Talks about the need for alternatives to military service in light of Viet Nam, and talks about the 10th Mountain Division Memorial and trail.Physical Description1 audio file (12:23)Born-Digital or AnalogAnalogSubjectParker, Robert W., 1922-2017--InterviewsUnited States. Army. Mountain Division, 10th--Archival resourcesUnited States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 87th--Archival resourcesSki troopsCamp Hale (Colo.)--Archival resourcesAmerican. Soldiers--United States--InterviewsSki troops--InterviewsCollection10th Mountain Division RecordsFinding Aidhttps://archives.denverlibrary.org/repositories/3/resources/3744Digital Version Created FromCassette tapes held by Denver Public LibraryOriginal Material Found in CollectionOH232. Robert W. Parker oral history; 10th Mountain Division Resource Center CollectionNotesThis oral history was digitized as part of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Recordings at Risk grant project.DonorRobert W. ParkerLanguageeng

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Oral HistoryRobert W. Parker oral history

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Rights Statementhttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/Credit 10th Mountain Division Resource Center, Denver Public Library, [call number]Digital Reproduction Available for PurchaseNo