99th Battalion collection

Collection

Identifier: 2025.053

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

One flat file folder (in drawer F-2-3). Panoramic unit photos. posters. One oversize folder (in Asst Oversize 22). Comic strip cartoons. One scrapbook, filed in scrapbook collection (#151). Viking boat embossed on cover. Incl. postcards- Fort Riley, Fort Leavenworth, Camp Gordon, Fort Snelling, Colorado, Camp Hale. sheet music, articles, valentines

Large framed material, filed seperately. Two maps. one art print. one 99th poster.

Banker's Box:

Bataljon 99 by Gerd Nyquist. spiral bound. In English. 1981.

Commemortative Book. 10th Mountain Division, Hale and Farewell, Denver CO 2007. spiral bound.

Vesterheim magazine. Vol 5 No 2, 2007. Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum.

Jens Chr. Hauge, Milorg, Under Okkupasjonen, 1940-1945. In Norwegian?

Camp Hale, the Mighty 10th Mountain Division. The History of Skiing, 1820-1980. Coors Brewing.

Reunion, 99th Infantry Battalion Seperate. Minneapolis 1994.

Loose photos bagged with labels B thru H.

Assoc of the 10th Mountain Division national roster 2007.

99th Infantry Bn WWII Education Foundation calendar 2014.

First Special Service Force internet article printouts.

The First Special Service Force Participants in the Liberation of Rome.

The First Special Service Force Assoc. Participants in the 40th Anniversary of the Liberation of Rome. 1984.

Norwegian Special Operations Group, RYPE, OSS, 1975.

Norwegian Special Operations Group, RYPE, OSS, 1975. photocopy.

Berger Jensen.

Norway travel. maps, etc.

Valentines. Not military. Harold Hanson family.

Harold Hanson ID cards, patches, documents.

Publications. Misc.

Spanish-American stereo cards. (3) filed in Asst. Oversize 7 SPan Am box.

99th pictures (sic). loose photographs.

OSS Operation RYPE: Cutting the Norland Rail Line in Occupied Norway at Two Points in the North Trondelaag Area, April 1945. U of Nebraska MA thesis. Bruce Heimark. 1989.

License plate. "99TH" Colorado. 1985.

99th Assoc. correspondence.

99th Newsletters. See also: https://www.99battalion.org/publications/newsletters

Print collateral. misc.

99th Publications. Pages from Norwegian? book. The 99th Battalion by Gerd Nyquist, 1981.

Reflections by George Hunsby. 1983?

Maps.

Legal-size documents.

Newspapers and clippings.

6" flip-top box:

Postcards: Ardennes, Nazi portrait, Westminster Abbey, Paris

Morten A. Tuftedal.

Rosters.

Camp Hale, CO.

Special Orders.

Company A, 99th Battalion payroll.

The Invisible Men on Skis.

Knute N. Knutson.

The American Embassy, Oslo.

Documents, misc.

Cigar box. pens; 2 blue star banner, framed; German to English dictionary; King of Norway pin; Norsk Hostfest, Minot belt buckle; razor blade box; Barrett Centennial medalion

DVD. The Viking Battalion, 99th Infantry Battalion (Sep). See also: https://youtu.be/SoSpy2oW5c4

Dates

1942-1945
Event: Donated by Olaf Minge, 99th Bn Educational Foundation on 30 May 2025. Accession 2025.053.

Conditions Governing Use

MMVM may, or may not, hold copyrights to materials in this collection. Donors who own copyrights to their donated materials, i.e., photos taken by their grandfather, typically donate their copyrights to MMVM as indicated on the Donation Gift Form. We recognize it is incumbent upon the researcher to procure permission to copy or publish information from this collection from the owner of the copyright.

Biographical / Historical

99th Infantry Battlaion, US Army, WWII.

Extent

3 Linear Feet (One grey standard banker's box, one 6" flip-top box, one flat file folder (in drawer F-2-3), one oversize folder (in Asst Oversize 22), one scrapbook.)