Groups: 503rd Parachute Battalion, 1940s

File — Box: 8, Folder: 2

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Photograph number 1: The mountain troops of Company B, 503rd Parachute Battalion who trained at Alta for winter warfare
Photograph number 2: Company B, 503rd Parachute Battalion, gets ready to ski away from Snowpine Lodge during training at Alta in the winter of 1942.
Photograph number 3: 503rd Parachute Battalion ski troops with winter warfare uniform
Photograph number 4: Paratroopers training at Alta, skiing above the Old Watson Shelter
Photograph number 5: Troops hiking up towards Flagstaff at Alta
Photograph number 6: Troops learning to ski
Photograph number 7: Hugh Bauer demonstrating a kick-turn to members of the 503rd Parachute Battalion
Photograph number 8: 503rd Parachute Battalion ski troops hiking up towards Flagstaff at Alta
Photograph number 9: Gordon Wren teaching soldiers of the 503rd Parachute Battalion the herringbone method of climbing
Photograph number 10: Ski troops at Alta trying the powder
Photograph number 11: Ski troop soldiers of the 503rd Parachute Battalion traversing along the Baldy shoulder at Alta as part of thier training activities.
Photograph number 12: Ski troops of the 503rd Parachute Battalion practice with winter gear
Photograph number 13: Ski troops practicing with rifles
Photograph number 14: Instructor Sel Hannah, well known 1940s ski racer, gives soldiers of the 503rd Parachute Battalion a lesson in waxing.
Photograph number 15: Dick Durrance instructing soldiers of the 503rd Parachute Battalion on how to get in and out of their ski bindings.
Photograph number 16: Dick Durrance with some of the instructor staff who trained the paratroopers of the 503rd Parachute Battalion.
Photograph number 17: Dick Durrance (far Left) with his cadre of instructors who trained the 503rd Parachute Battalion in early 1942. Some of the instructors included Walter Prager, Sel Hannah, Barney McLean, Gordon Wren, Art Johansen, Bob Skinner, Alex Baer, Hugh Bauer, Bill Redlin, Henry Simoneau, and Durance's brother, Jimmy.

Dates

1940s

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