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Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms, arms, dead horses, and men lying on roads -- they are not there accidentally.

- Soviet infantry manual, issued in the 1930's

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S&T
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supply and transport


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Today in Military History

December 24



1900:

British authorities accept an offer of postal clerks for service in South Africa: this unit is called the Canadian Postal Contingent


1944:

HMCS Clayoquot is torpedoed by a U-boat and sinks in the Halifax approaches.




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