by Christian Beckwith | Mar 3, 2023 | Ninety-Pound Rucksack Episodes, Ninety-Pound Rucksack Podcast
Featuring original and previously unpublished research, Episode 7 reveals the untold story of H. Adams Carter, the Harvard Five, and their groundbreaking efforts to make the 10th Mountain Division the best-trained, best-fed, best-equipped mountain unit in the world....
by Christian Beckwith | Mar 3, 2023 | Ninety-Pound Rucksack Episodes, Ninety-Pound Rucksack Podcast
This Abridged version of Episode 6 follows the mountain troops to Mount Rainier National Park where, in the middle of February 1942, they began their ski training at one of the best places a soldier could ever learn to ski—a place called, appropriately enough,...
by Christian Beckwith | Mar 1, 2023 | Ninety-Pound Rucksack Episodes, Ninety-Pound Rucksack Podcast
This Abridged version of Episode 5 explores the 10th Mountain Division’s halcyon days: the pivotal period from late 1941 until early 1942 when the War Department activated America’s very first test force for cold-weather and mountain warfare at Ft. Lewis,...
by Christian Beckwith | Feb 25, 2023 | Ninety-Pound Rucksack Episodes, Ninety-Pound Rucksack Podcast
Episode 4 takes a deep dive into the US Army’s experimental ski patrols of 1940-1941, and the events that led to the activation of the 1st Battalion (Reinforced), 87th Mountain Infantry at Ft. Lewis, Washington—the unit that would eventually become the 10th...
by Christian Beckwith | Feb 4, 2023 | Unabridged
Available only to Patrons, this Unabridged version of Episode 3 explores the 10th Mountain Division’s backstory in the lead-up to America’s entry into World War II. The episode includes interviews with Chris Juergens, PhD, the Anschutz Curator of Military...
