The men of the Colorado-trained 10th Mountain Division didn’t just help liberate Italy. Many of them fell in love with the country and kept returning on group trips, decades after World War I.
Susannah Evans LeVon’s dad, Hugh Evans, visited Italy more than a dozen times and forged strong friendships with locals. LeVon recently returned to the Tuscan hill country and met one of her late father’s good friends, a 92-year-old veteran of Italy’s mountain fight force, the Alpini.
Franco Torri and Evans LeVon reflect on her father’s legacy and their special connection.
The 10th Returns
The 10th Mountain Division troops trained in the Colorado mountains and helped win WWII in 1945.
This story is part of a series that follows a group of their descendants who returned to Italy and retraced their steps.
