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Canadian personnel digging a slit trench during Operation SPRING south of Ifs, France, 25 July 1944. A hand-painted sign in the background reads, "Old soldiers never die -- they dig! And fade away into a slit trench."

Black and white photograph. Two men dig a narrow trench in the ground. Tarps and a military jeep are in the background, in front of a forested area. — (Lieut. Ken Bell, Canadian Dept. of National Defence, Library and Archives Canada, MIKAN No. 3396151.)

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