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Expert Envoy. From Ottawa, Steinhardt traveled from one end of Canada to the other. When Canadian and U.S. troops finished Exercise Sweetbriar on the rim of the Arctic two months ago, he was on hand in bitter weather to watch the windup. He made friends officiating at such functions as the Stampede in Calgary and the dog derby in Ottawa...
...theoretical shooting began last week in Exercise Sweetbriar, .the joint Canadian-U.S. maneuvers to test North America's defenses against invasion from the Arctic. Across the mile-wide Donjek River, 170 miles south of Dawson, Allied troops fought off a mock invader driving into Canada from Alaska...
Candles Spiked. The corporal's opinion was shared by 5,000-odd army and air force personnel and 22 newspaper correspondents taking part in the Sweetbriar maneuver. In Arctic warfare, everything was different and difficult. Even breathing required a careful technique; a deep breath of the icy air could nip the lungs. Food was another problem; to maintain body warmth an Arctic fighting man had to eat almost twice as many calories as an ordinary soldier. The tallow candles issued to Canadian troops were spiked with food concentrates and could be eaten if rations failed to arrive...
...Exercise Sweetbriar was a test to determine whether, in spite of all the known difficulties, men & machines could fight a war in the Arctic. A Canadian combat team was sent north from Whitehorse in the Yukon. An "aggressor force" of U.S. troops from the Alaska Command headed south. Later, a U.S. combat team, brought in from Colorado, went up the highway to reinforce the Canadian defenders. Referees ordered attacks, withdrawals and flanking movements and directed operations of U.S. and Canadian aircraft...
...snow vehicle, the Weasel, was a dismaying failure; of 100 brand-new Weasels put into action, nearly half broke down in the first five days. The Canadian Army's counterpart, the Penguin, stood up better but was too bulky to maneuver among the pines off the road. Before Sweetbriar was half over, observers were recommending that the Allied armies study the use of Arctic-conditioned dogs, mules and horses for transport...