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Our men in the Ziir Force and army will have to sp<rii<l another Christmas away from home this year but most will at least be more comfortable than this sailor.

of their ship. In this photo, a corvette is shown as she blasts the Atlantic with powerful depth charges, dropped in a pattern to trap a prowling enemy U-boat.

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He probably wishes he had stuck to paper hanglng—-Most ships have such crests.

‘this isn't a freak picture. It's just th every-day aczcumulation of ice which builds up on a ship soon after she sets out on the North Atlantic in winter.

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