| 601st Field Artillery Battalion (Pack) |
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| 601st Field Artillery Battalion (Pack) |
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75 mm Pack Howitzer
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This site is dedicated to the men who served and fought in WW II. |
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This history of the 601st Field Artillery Battalion (Pack) is located on 8 different web sites. This is the first one, the main "Home Page." At the end of this web site is a link to take you to the next site, which consist of alot more photographs taken by the men of the 601st. This site has many photographs and maps also, which are used to tell the history of the battalion. There is also a site at Military.com that I put together on the 601st.
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CAMP HALEIn 1942, Pando, Colorado was nothing more than a two-room train station situated in the picturesque Eagle Park Valley at an elevation of 9,500 feet. In the winter months it was rarely warmer than 40 degrees, and often 20 to 35 degrees below zero at 5 am. By November 1942, an army camp filled the valley surrounded by mountains. Given the name Camp Hale, after Brig. Gen. Irving Hale, construction on the camp began in April 1942 and was completed in November the same year. The camp, located about 20 miles west of Leadville, Colorado, was the first U.S. training post for mountain troops. The Mountain Training Center (MTC) was activated at Camp Carson, Colorado on September 2, 1942, but was moved to Camp Hale in November. An increase need for troops in the art of mountain warfare led to the formation of the 10th Mountain Division, a unit devoted to moving appropriate weapons over mountainous terrain in any kind of weather. |
The History of the"10th Light Division (Alpine)" | |
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Newer version of the 601st D.I.
This D.I. recently sold on eBay for $51.00 |
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This early version of the 10th Mountain Division patch sold recently on eBay for $332.50! Look at the prices of what other variations sold for on eBay. |
This version sold for $580.50!
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The 601st and 602d trained under the 10th in it's early infancy days. Before it became a established Division. This patch is what the very first version looked like. It sold on eBay for $115.00 !
Later version of the 10th Mountain patch
Stories from the 88th Division, which the 601st furnished artillery support. | ||
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After WWII the 601st Field Artillery became the 601st Missile Battalion stationed in Germany | |
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