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Re: SURVEY:oddest items in your collections
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HNEEDHAM <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 6 Dec 1995 10:09:45 +0000
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The Canadian War Museum has two VERY odd items.

The first is the only suviving piloted V1 rocket. Yes, Virginia, there WAS a
piloted version! Actually, two were built. The first blew up on takeoff, I am
told and the second was piloted by Hanna Retsch (sp?) and landed on a Dutch
beach, there being no undercart. It was borrowed by the Canadian Army whilst
liberating Nederland.

The second is a bit less romantic, but equally odd - a snowshoe designed to be
worn by a draft horse, or at least one drafted into the Cdn Army in WW II.

Harry Needham

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