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Bugs of flour are bullets in all-night sham battle

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Bugs of flour are bullets in all-night sham battle

Date1/22/1941

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Canada. Canadian Army (subject)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

Unknown (photographer)

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Original Toronto Star caption: Bugs of flour are bullets in all-night sham battle. Camp Borden's army ski troops went on the attack last night. In the blackness of midnight; figures clad in pure white parkas stole out of camp on a reconnaissance foray. [Incomplete]

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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0002199F

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