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SNOWBIRDS OF CANADAmMMC'-'X'SAv?.*',* -V*Vv .V.vNVv»Passed by CensorFROM the young men who used to spend their winter weekends skiingon the snow-covercd hills of Canada, the Dominion has created a body of ski troops who are second to none. Loner experience in this popularsport made it easy for these men to adapt themselves to the conversionof skiing from a pastime to the sterner purposes of war. Already theyhave proved their value in Iceland *frid many thousands of them are ready to demonstrate their merits in other theatres of war if necessary. The photographs show a platoon of ski troops on manoeuvres and a sniper who would be very difficult to spot.
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Washington Evening Journal
Washington, Iowa, US
Sat, Feb 28, 1942
Page 7
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