Second World War
Although club activities, per se, ceased, many members continued mountaineering in support of the U.S. Army. This included testing mountain equipment for the famed 10th Mountain Division, and instructing and serving in its ranks. After the war, a lieutenant from the division, William Lowell Putnam, re-formed the HMC by announcing himself President in the Harvard Crimson.
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