WAR STORIES
Harold K. Hanson, veteran
Sioux Falls
Harold K. Hanson, 2006
Branch of Service: 99th Infantry Battalion (Separate)
Highest Rank: Corporal
Military Service: Drafted, October 1941 - November, 1945

 

 




99th Infantry Battalion Separate Norwegian - American
Ski-Troopers WWII jacket



Private Harold Hanson (right) with Private Miles Green (left),
photo taken at Fort Gordon, Georgia, 1942



99th Battalion Special Forces, Harold Hanson top row left 


99th Infantry Battalion Norwegian - American Ski Troop
(Harold Hanson top row right)



Ski Training in Colorado, 1942


 Osmond Skarning, good friend of Harold Hanson (Osmond
Skarning was the first fatality in Company A)  



Harold Hanson (middle), ski training, Camp Hale, Colorado


Harold Hanson, Horse Calvary Basic Training, Ft. Riley, Kansas 


The Liberation Of Norway, 8th May 1945

 

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