A dramatic exhibit about a celebrated World War II U.S. Army unit, with Park Ridge ties, that fought the Germans on mountain slopes using skiing and mountain climbing techniques, opened April 13, k…
Gary Linden, who helped compile the Park Ridge Historical Society’s special exhibits to honor the 80th anniversary of D-Day in World War II, reads a Chicago Tribune front page announcing a major development in the war. Behind him is a tribute to a Park Ridge native who served in an Army unit specialized for mountain fighting and trained in skiing and mountain climbing.
After six months of fighting in May 1945, the 10th’s record became so distinguished that the German commander in Italy elected to surrender specifically to the division, said Brian Claire, son of 10th Mountain veteran Frank V. Claire, Jr. and a Park Ridge native. The Italian campaign lasted much longer and was not as dramatic in ground-gaining for United States forces. The Germans stubbornly resisted, requiring the special talents of the 10th Mountain to battle an enemy experienced in mountain warfare.
Ryles directed attention to a part of the exhibit chronicling some northern Italian mountain towns, including Prunetta, in the province of Pistoia, north of Florence, where villagers took members of the 10th Mountain into their homes for warmth and friendship, and who in turn shared their rations with the hungry villagers.
In 1944, Ryles said, when ground-based U.S. Army troops in Italy couldn’t dislodge German soldiers from the mountains, they brought in the 10th. No matter in which country their record was amassed, the feats of the “Greatest Generation” deserve to be commemorated indefinitely, said Lynch.
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