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wm
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let me share a little local history with you all .....

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https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/ ... 745930002/
Honestly it is a poorly written article but it is current and there is good bit of better written history on the internet if you know what to look for.


Many of those doughboys were lumbermen from northern Michigan where I live.

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A wasteful and useless action , long forgotten by all but the families of the participants and serious students of WWI. Here's a pretty good book on the subject: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=the+polar+be ... _sb_noss_2
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Thank you for posting.
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There is still a lot that most of us do not know about WWI and WWII.
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