With the fierce and ever consistent snowfall, the 10th Mountain Division (LI) Soldiers enter the Camp Hale and Vail ...

An East Aurora teacher brought his students to Lockport to share a first-hand account of service and sacrifice.

When Kirk found out he’d be going to Italy to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of Riva Ridge with other members of the MTG, he knew exactly where he wanted to reenlist. On Feb. 19 ...

In order to take the mountain, they had to take a nearby mountain range, known as Riva Ridge. Germans occupied the ridge, allowing them to locate and call in accurate artillery on American and ...

It was 75 years ago on Feb. 18, 1945, that the men of the 10th literally climbed to one of history’s most miraculous military victories, the Battle of Riva Ridge, in the northern Apennine Mountains of ...

A new housing development with an after-school program for resident children, a community room and nonprofit services could ...

By early afternoon on February 19, the Germans had fled. The Americans had secured the entire three-and-a-half-mile ridge: it was Riva Ridge. This daring nighttime maneuver is in the textbooks and is ...

They would take that ridge — a position that would help the Allied forces defeat the Nazis. Riva Ridge wasn’t just an important moment in World War II but in Colorado history. The 10th ...

Feb 22, 2025 Feb 22, 2025 Updated Feb 26, 2025 In the dead of night 80 years ago this week, five columns of mountain troops who had trained in Colorado began scaling the face of Riva Ridge in Italy.

The colors marked a wide array of people, soldiers, descendants of 10th Mountain Division soldiers and their friends, who came to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Riva Ridge in Italy.

This week will mark the eightieth anniversary of the assault on Riva Ridge and the weeks of desperate mountain combat that followed, a deadly struggle on a forgotten front that hastened the end of ...

Thirty-three skiers and snowboarders stayed after hours at the White Pass Ski Area on Tuesday, Feb. 18, to honor the United States Army's 10th Mountain Division by braving the cold, wind and darkness ...