Military ski races were held in Norway during the 18th century, and ski warfare was studied in the late 18th century.

This was a reference to the initially poor (consider Battle of Raatteentie) ski warfare skills of the Soviet soldiers.

It was a U.S. Army ski warfare training facility constructed in 1942 for what became the 10th Mountain Division.

During his time at the EHM, he created new techniques of ski warfare, methods of training, and clothing for mountain warfare.

Ski warfare, the use of ski-equipped troops in war, is first recorded by the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus in the 13th century.

Ski warfare even extended to the Middle East where the Australian Ski Corps were deployed against Vichy French forces in the mountains of Lebanon.

In 1952 he became company commander of the 43rd/Battaglione Alpini Sciatori "Monte Cervino", a ski warfare company, in Aosta.

Only nine Alpini regiments remain in service today, and only four still train every soldier in ski warfare: the 4th Alpini Parachutist Regiment, 5th Alpini Regiment, 6th Alpini Regiment and 7th Alpini Regiment.

Once again he had found himself enlisted into a battalion of French ski troops.

He helped train the first United States ski troops.

After retiring from boxing, he joined the Army, where he trained ski troops.

A national fascination with the white-clad skiing troops did not hurt conscription.

With no ski troops, the 44th Rifle Division was completely road bound in the deep snow.

The speed and distance that ski troops are able to cover is comparable to that of light cavalry.

That ski troops picture Jenkey made is bombing.

When he was done, he looked tike an officer in the ski troops, lacking only the skis.

Mechanized divisions had to rely on these, becoming easy targets for the mobile Finnish ski troops.

He was a Bavarian and belonged to an anti-aircraft unit which had taken over from the ski troops who had been training there.

On 6 December, the Soviets launch a successful counter-offensive by using the air force, the cavalry, tanks, and ski troops.

When war came, he volunteered in the ski troops, serving for three years in the Aleutians and in Italy.

Difficult areas such as mountain and ski troops, plus ultra-rare pre-war uniforms are covered Illustrations: over 500 color, and black and white photos.

Combat Aerosans often worked with ski infantry battalions, and could carry four ski troops riding outside the vehicle on its skis or towed behind.

The 126th and 127th Rifle Corps consisted of light infantry with a number of ski troops and naval infantry.

Called Saf-Ski, it was used by ski troops in World War II and as a ski-rental binding.

Denmark-Norway (though only Norwegian) ski troops were used against Sweden during the 1807-1814 Napoleonic Wars.

Forested, rural terrain with no roads was used by Finnish ski troops with great success against the advancing mechanized Soviet troops.

Later in the morning, the German main body drove the British and Norwegians from this position, while Austrian ski troops outflanked the defenders.

Instead, the Germans relied on paratroops, airborne troops transported by Junkers Ju 52s and specialised ski troops.

Ski troops played a key role in the successes of the Finnish war effort against the Soviet Union during the Winter War in 1939.

Last month, the Oxford coroner welcomed the army's announcement that the vehicles – originally designed to move ski troops in the Arctic – are to be replaced.

Fascinated by the Finnish ski troops who hampered the Russian advance in their 1939-40 war, he lobbied tirelessly and ultimately successfully for such an American force.

Munk applied for American citizenship in 1939 after the Anschluss and enlisted in the ski troops of the U.S. Army as a private.

During WWII, the 10th Mountain Division established Camp Hale to train elite ski troops.