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Wide World News photo, dated February 9, 1940
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Finnish snow troopers, clad in winter white camouflage uniforms and wearing gas masks, conceal themselves in a field on the Russian-Finnish front. At the time, the Finns claimed the Russians were using picric chloride poison gas on the battlefield.
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| from the Webmaster's collection |
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