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Newspaper Clippings - Second World War Era - Dispatches and Articles from War Zones

This section contains one newspaper clipping dispatch from an unidentified newspaper. The article is dated February 6, 1944, and was written by Canadian press war correspondent Foster Barclay. The article pertains to the Cape Breton Highlander's first major battle of the war, an ill-fated assault across the valley of a stream called the Riccio, in Italy, on January 17, 1944. The battlefield later became known as "The Valley of Death". Many men are named in the article.

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