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Camp borden experts tune them of, send them Roaring away for dutt
Camp borden experts tune them of, send them Roaring away for dutt

Camp borden experts tune them of, send them Roaring away for dutt

Date10/10/1940
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Original Toronto Star caption: Camp borden experts tune them of; send them Roaring away for dutt. One hundred and eighty U.S. tanks of world war vintage were at Camp Borden today for training a Canadian tank brigade; as another 34 arrived on a long line of flat cars. [Incomplete]
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0002112F
1. Team work, team training and team spirit that make a tank crew behave with a single mind. That's how the men of Canada's army at Camp Borden are ha(...)
1. Team work, team training and team spirit that make a tank crew behave with a single mind. That's how the men of Canada's army at Camp Borden are ha(...)
7/25/1942
Bullets of light, not lead, stream from the muzzle of this tank gun in battle practice at Camp Borden
Bullets of light, not lead, stream from the muzzle of this tank gun in battle practice at Camp Borden
4/25/1941
Ready . . aim . . fire. Soldiers at Camp Borden are being shot with light rays these days, A newly invented ray gun, with which Sgt. E. A. Williams he(...)
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1/16/1941
A tank crew halts its heavily armored vehicle at the top of a hill near Camp Borden to observe enemy locations
A tank crew halts its heavily armored vehicle at the top of a hill near Camp Borden to observe enemy locations
8/27/1938
One of Canada's fighting tanks, six tons of concentrated destructive power, tops a rise at Camp Borden as recruits put it through actual war paces. Th(...)
One of Canada's fighting tanks, six tons of concentrated destructive power, tops a rise at Camp Borden as recruits put it through actual war paces. Th(...)
10/7/1939
Explaining away a tank crash. A 24,000-ton Sherman tank of World War II vintage that had been on display at CNE accidentally gunned down a mail truck (...)
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192-?
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Private rand in Carden-Lloyd carrier
Private rand in Carden-Lloyd carrier
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Before shipment to the battlefields of Russia and Africa a Valentine tank is put through its paces
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Among the small airms included in platoon weapons is the Boys' anti-tank rifle, shown above, somewhat reminiscent of the old elephant gun. It fires a (...)
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8/9/1941
Stirton, a Dunkirk survivor of the Royal Tank Corps, sits in the power-driven Canada's first army tank as it rolls from the assembly line of the C.P.R(...)
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5/31/1941