The American ski corps was based on that of the Finnish Army and it recruited from the best skiers in the United States.
Recruiting was helped by the movie "Sun Valley Serenade" which featured skiing. Later, two war movies were made at Camp Hale: "Mountain Fighters" in 1943 and "I Love a Soldier" in 1944.
By 1944, Camp Hale was training as many as 14,000 soldiers at a time. It also housed about 400 members of Rommel's Afrika Korps.
The base was closed in November 1945. In 2003, the Army Corps of Engineers began cleanup of unexploded ordnance.
Today, the camp is located in the White River National Forest and part of it has camping. Several markers and plaques about its World War II use are located there.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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