WW2 Tank Optics - Near Cold Lake

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Originally Posted by Peter Phillips

..... This was to help make mock hides, mock convoys and mock town settings using ATCO trailers with vehicles placed around them. We had to be completely chained up to navigate the sketchy ice roads which were just cut lines cleared with a cat. .....

It is worth reminding readers that the fliers are not actually trying to bomb the targets. That would be too much work for the ground crews. They drop concrete-filled containers that behave like bombs on the rails and in the sky, but don't explode. The telemetry records hits and misses, with a requisite off-set and that is how they keep score. However, from time to time the Forces gets called back to clear iron bomb range scrap. My unit helped with maps for a local labour project in the Goose Bay impact area. The biggest threat there (besides lightplane-size mosquitos) were herds of curious black bears.