drowning. The unit landed at Salerno on 10 September during the second day of Operation Avalanche. Landing again as part of Operation Dragoon on 15 August 1944, now in southern France, the unit pushed eastward. On 29 April 1945, the 3rd Battalion was ordered to secure the Dachau concentration camp. Upon reaching the camp and witnessing the aftermath of the Holocaust crimes perpetrated there, enraged members of the unit killed upwards of 35 SS camp guards and workers as reprisal. Other elements of the 157th Infantry participated in the Pacific Theatre against Japanese forces. The 1st Battalion, 157th Regiment as organized in 2008 traces its lineage through these troops, who fought during the New Guinea and Luzon campaigns, with service during the latter entitling the unit to the Philippine Presidential Unit Citation streamer. Camp George West near Golden, constructed as a training facility for Colorado National Guardsmen in 1903, was utilized as a rifle range during the war. Artillery training was executed nearby at Green Mountain. Cold War and late twentieth century During the 1950-1953 Korean War, no elements of the Colorado National Guard were deployed into the combat area, though other states' National Guards served in combat and support roles in the combat theatre. During the Vietnam War, 900 Colorado Air National Guardsmen were deployed. Most of these men arrived in 1968 and served a 15 month deployment through 27 March 1969. Of the Colorado Air National Guard deployed, 250 were stationed at Phan Rang Air Base. Two of the airmen did not return following crashes in 1969: Maj. Clyde Seiler was killed when his F-100 was brought down by ground fire during a combat mission and intelligence officer Capt. Perry Jefferson (posthumously promoted to major) who went missing during an observation flight. Jefferson's remains were recovered in 2007. The Coloradan National Guard airmen contributed 9,000 combat hours and 18,000 dropped munitions to the conflict. Woodstock West, a student protest on the campus of the University of Denver in May 1970 in response to the Kent State shootings, drew thousands to a shanty town constructed on the university's campus. University officials called upon the Colorado National Guard to clear a second encampment that had been established shortly after the Denver Police Department had successfully cleared the first tent city. Most residents evacuated the encampment prior to the arrival of the guardsmen on the morning of the 13 May. The