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Right side of ambulance with red cross visible [blurred image]. Barracks in background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Two soldiers in front of barracks at Camp Hale. One is standing on a boardwalk; another is standing between two parked vehicles. Additional barracks and vehicles in background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
63) Earnest A. Cook
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Photo postcard of Earnest A. Cook, in Army uniform, training at Camp Dix, New Jersey, for World War I.
On the back, he writes: "Dear Sweetheart, This picture isn't very good as there is too much light on my face and it blurred across my eyes. Will have some better ones taken before I go across. Be good, Dearie. Yours lovingly, Earnest. That stern look is necessary when we stand at attention."
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"Nearly 2,000 people packed Broadway on Friday to pose for a photograph that will be sent as a Valentine's Day gift to Eagle County troops stationed in the Middle East. More than a dozen men and women from Eagle County are stationed in the Middle East as part of Operation Desert Storm. Eagle, the county seat, has a population of 1,580. Governement offices were closed for the rally. Offices and stores shut down, and school was briefly recessed....
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Alexander Macdonell, Jr., in his Navy uniform. He served as a Seabee doing electrical work.
66) John Norton
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Photo postcard of John Norton, in Army uniform, training for World War I. He's posed in front of an American flag.
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Mules corralled next to the mule barn at Camp Hale.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
68) Hugh Riley, Jr.
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Hugh Riley, Jr., in Navy seaman's uniform.
"Hugh Riley was the Public Service representative in Red Cliff and lived upstairs in the Public Service Bldg. on Eagle St. His wife, Margaret, was bookkeeper. They eventually moved to Canon City and died there.
They had two sons, Hugh Riley, Jr., and Timothy, both attending high school in Red Cliff. Hugh Riley, Jr., worked in Gilman (1970?-1980?) and lived in Leadville. His wife was named Bonnie. ...
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Verso: "Mom at Gilman with Harold Stoner home on furlough." Sophie Knight and Harold Stoner are posed next to an automobile.
"Harold was a good friend of my brother Don. So there was work at the mine and Harold boarded with us. So I guess he was really 'home' on leave!" -- letter Nov. 25, 2013, Betty Jo Schmidt to Jaci Spuhler
70) Ivan "Ike" Dumph
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Ivan "Ike" Dump in his Army uniform during World War II, including a regulation special issue sweater,
71) Charley Dump
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Portrait photograph of Charley Roy Dump. "Charley left home to join the Army at age 17. He later joined the Air Force and proudly served his country for 31 years. He retired in 1975 as the youngest Air Force Warrant Officer ever appointed. ... In his youth he was an avid skier, and was selected to compete, as an alternate for Downhill and Slalom for the 1948 Olympics Team in St. Moritz, Switzerland." -- obituary 2003
72) Joe Fear
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Studio portrait of Joe A. Fear in U.S. Air Force uniform, taken on June 5, 1955, Chiu-Yi, Formosa (Taiwan).
73) Camp Hale
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Sanborn photographic postcard of "Camp Hale--Tennesse [sic.] Pass Between Leadville and Red Cliff, Colo. W2144"
The view gives a good idea of the extent of Camp Hale in the Pando Valley.
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Ellis Bearden, in uniform, standing with his stepmother, Elizabeth Diamond Bearden. Ellis's mother, Maude Lewright Bearden, died in 1933, leaving three sons with husband Roland J. Beardon. Roland and Elizabeth were married in 1939.
75) Marcella Roberts
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Marcella Ann Walsh Roberts in U.S. Air Force uniform. Daughter of Mickey and Mamie Walsh, she spent her chldhood in Red Cliff and graduated from St. Scholastic Academy in Canon City. She married Charles D. Roberts on June 20, 1961; she died May 30, 1991.
76) Ellis Bearden
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Studio portrait of Ellis Bernard Bearden in Army Uniform. He served with the 3rd Armored Field Artillery Battalion during World War II, fighting for 21 months in Germany and France. "He told friends about being caught in Belgium, in the Battle of the Bulge, just days before Christmas. The Allied troops were surrounded by Germans, and the cloudy weather prevented planes from providing air support for days. Bearden talked of his joy on the day the...
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1944: U.S. Army Mule Packers passing through Red Cliff, Colorado. Snow on ground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Theodore "Bud" Beck on leave from the Army, October 1944, standing in the Beck's yard. The house in the background burned down. Tib Montoya was living in it at the time.
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Camp Hale, looking down at the railway with train in midground at left. Smoke from the Camp is at midground, right. Snow on the ground.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Ski troops training near Camp Hale, Colorado. 22 skiiers proceeding in a line across the midground with mountain in the background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
