A Second War Period Canadian Operation Muskox Sleeve Patch Auction maker label inscribed "AKC SAB

maker label inscribed "AKC SAB A

700 people in the Kampinos Forest

Ottawa (dated May 25

from February 10

A Second War Period Canadian Operation Muskox Sleeve Patch Auction maker label inscribed "AKC SABLight blue, white and black embroidery, 56 mm x 61 mm, uniform worn, extremely fine. Footnote: Operation Muskox was the largest military exercise ever held in the Canadian Arctic and the fourth of four military expeditions held in the region in the 1940s. The previous three, Eskimo, Polar Bear and Lemming, had been on a far smaller scale in terms of personnel, equipment, and the sheer distance traveled. The origin of Muskox, and of Arctic exercises