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DURING THE RECENT EUROPEAN WINTER SPECIALLY SELECTED UNITS WERE FORMED FROM THE A.I.F. IN SYRIA FOR TRAINING IN THE USE OF SKIS. THE 1 AUSTRALIAN CORPS SKI SCHOOL WAS SITUATED HIGH IN THE LEBANON RANGES. ALTHOUGH THE WORK WAS CARRIED OUT IN A PICTURESQUE ENVIRONMENT, IT ENTAILED CONSIDERABLE HARDSHIP FOR MEN NOT FULLY ACCLIMATISED TO THE HARSH CONDITIONS. ONLY THOSE WHO WERE PHYSICALLY FIT WERE SELECTED FROM THE VOLUNTEERS. THE FORMATION OF RECONNAISSANCE AND FIGHTING PATROLS WAS THE OBJECTIVE, AND THE TRAINING COVERED BIVOUACKING ABOVE THE SNOW LINE, TACTICS IN OFFENSIVE AND PROTECTIVE PATROLS, SIGNALLING AND INTELLIGENCE DUTIES. ONE TRAINEE SILHOUETTED AGAINST A SNOWY HILL. NOTE THAT HIS SKIS AND SKI POLES ARE STUCK UPRIGHT IN THE SNOW BESIDE HIM.
DURING THE RECENT EUROPEAN WINTER SPECIALLY SELECTED UNITS WERE FORMED FROM THE A.I.F. IN SYRIA FOR TRAINING IN THE USE OF SKIS. THE 1 AUSTRALIAN SKI SCHOOL WAS SITUATED HIGH IN THE LEBANON RANGES. AL
DURING THE RECENT EUROPEAN WINTER SPECIALLY SELECTED UNITS WERE FORMED FROM THE A.I.F. IN SYRIA FOR TRAINING IN THE USE OF SKIS. THE 1 AUSTRALIAN CORPS SKI SCHOOL WAS SITUATED HIGH IN THE LEBANON RANG
DURING THE RECENT EUROPEAN WINTER SPECIALLY SELECTED UNITS WERE FORMED FROM THE A.I.F. IN SYRIA FOR TRAINING IN THE USE OF SKIS. THE 1 AUSTRALIAN CORPS SKI SCHOOL WAS SITUATED HIGH IN THE LEBANON RANG
DURING THE RECENT EUROPEAN WINTER SPECIALLY SELECTED UNITS WERE FORMED FROM THE A.I.F. IN SYRIA FOR TRAINING IN THE USE OF SKIS. THE SCHOOL WAS SITUATED HIGH IN THE LEBANON RANGES, AND ALTHOUGH, AS TH
DURING THE RECENT EUROPEAN WINTER SPECIALLY SELECTED UNITS WERE FORMED FROM THE A.I.F. IN SYRIA FOR TRAINING IN THE USE OF SKIS. THE 1 AUSTRALIAN SKI SCHOOL WAS SITUATED HIGH IN THE LEBANON RANGES. AL
Lebanon. May 1942. During the recent European winter specially selected units were formed from the AIF in Syria for training in the use of skis. The ski school was situated above Bcharre in the Lebano
