TOUGH "DOWN-UNDERS"
"The New Zealand and Australian air trainees are showing these Canadian 'he-men' something'," says a letter received by a soldier at Burnham from his sister in Saskatchewan. "Everyone is making a great fuss of the New Zealandcrs and 'Aussies' and the same 'down-nn-ders' are a constant source of amaze mcnt, to Toronto in particular, as they go about without overcoats and sleep with windows open. Toronto, on the Great Lakes, is notorious for cold and d'amp, and the local 'air boys' 'wear great coats and lamb-lined mitts and boots, and keep double windows shut and a furnace going. As tliey come from such a different climate, everyone thought the New Zealandcrs and Australians would freeze up and shiver to death. The story goes that when one of them was asked lyhat he thought of the climate, he said: 'Well, it's a bit cold, but a little exercise overcomes that.' The reported temperature was. 10 degrees zf.ro, v.-''*" 1 ' ?<: "vig-fjiy rnld- i» v .
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 265, 31 January 1941, Page 6
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164TOUGH "DOWN-UNDERS" Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 265, 31 January 1941, Page 6
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