COMING SOON: On June 22, 1944, the mountain troops were shipped from Camp Hale to Camp Swift, Texas. The 10th was too small, too specialized, too elite; they were to be converted to a flatland operation just like all the rest of the Army’s divisions. The entire exercise of developing a division of mountain troops had failed. The nay-sayers in the Army Ground Forces had won.
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