by Christian Beckwith | Sep 23, 2024 | Ninety-Pound Rucksack Episodes
Coming Soon: Key to breaking the Gothic Line was Riva Ridge—the icy eastern flanks of which were so steep the Germans hardly defended them. Welcome to the most famous chapter in the history of the 10th Mountain Division, when more than 700 mountain troops climbed the...
by Christian Beckwith | Sep 13, 2024 | Unabridged
The Origins of Camp Hale: How the U.S. Army scouted, selected, and developed Colorado’s high-altitude Pando Valley site to create a training ground for mountain warfare. Episode Synopsis: In Episode 11 of Ninety-Pound Rucksack, host Christian Beckwith...
by Christian Beckwith | Aug 23, 2024 | Ninety-Pound Rucksack Episodes
COMING SOON: When the soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division arrived in Italy, they were mountain hardened, but not battle-tested. This episode looks at the first few weeks in the Italian theater, when their encounters with the enemy took the green off the mountain...
by Christian Beckwith | Jul 23, 2024 | Unabridged
In Episode 10 of Ninety-Pound Rucksack, we explore the seismic cultural shift that—driven in no small part by citizen-soldiers like John McCown—enveloped the U.S. Army during WWII. As John and his fellow officers underwent their rigorous training at Officer Candidate...
by Christian Beckwith | Jul 23, 2024 | Ninety-Pound Rucksack Episodes
COMING SOON: The Gothic Line was a series of fortified ridges and summits in Italy’s Apennines that was key to the Nazi occupation of the country. By October 1944, more than 1,200,000 soldiers had battled to take it—and now winter was on the way. And who could...
