Camp Hale, between Red Cliff and Leadville in the Eagle River valley in Colorado, was a U S Army training facility constructed in 1942 for what became the 10th Mountain Division.
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10 Facts About Camp Hale
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Camp Hale included mess halls, infirmaries, a ski shop, administrative offices, a movie theater, and stables for livestock.
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Two more wartime movies were made, each filmed at Camp Hale, featuring the white-clad elite troops—Mountain Fighters in 1943 and I Love a Soldier in 1944.
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Military use of Camp Hale included the 10th Mountain Division, commanded by Lloyd E Jones, the 38th Regimental Combat Team, the Norwegian-American 99th Infantry Battalion, and soldiers from Fort Carson conducting mountain and winter warfare training exercises.
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Also present at Camp Hale was the 620th Engineer General Service Company, a unit composed of suspected unreliable German-Americans or soldiers with suspected pro-National Socialist beliefs.
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Camp Hale was active for just three years; it was deactivated in November 1945 and the 10th Mountain Division moved to Texas.
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Camp Hale held "about 400 of the most incorrigible members of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Corps".
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The CIA circulated a story in the local press that Camp Hale was to be the site of atomic tests and would be a high security zone.
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In 1965, Camp Hale was dismantled and the land was deeded to the U S Forest Service.
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Camp Hale site is proposed to be the first National Historic Landscape.
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